{"id":728148,"date":"2026-08-05T09:56:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T09:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/728148\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T09:56:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T09:56:08","slug":"milton-keynes-fly-tipping-down-by-a-quarter-council-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/728148\/","title":{"rendered":"Milton Keynes fly-tipping down by a quarter, council says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Fly-tipping across a city has fallen by more than a quarter in the last five years, a council has said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Milton Keynes City Council reported that incidents had reduced by almost 27% since a fly-tipping action plan was introduced.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/milton-keynes.moderngov.co.uk\/documents\/s30261\/Fly%20Tipping%20Action%20Plan%202026%20to%202029_Annex%20A_Fly-Tipping%20Action%20Plan.pdf\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The plan has now been updated with new measures, external<\/a>, including higher penalties for larger offences and seizure of vehicles involved in waste crimes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Johnny Luk, a Conservative councillor, has welcomed the update but has questioned the figures.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The council, which is run by a Labour and Liberal Democrat coalition, said its success in reducing fly-tipping had been due to targeted enforcement, community engagement and investigating to gather evidence for prosecutions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Luk said: &#8220;The numbers could result from less reporting because people might have lost faith in reporting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;If you look at the amount of fines being issued, which are in the tens, I would say per quarter compared to the thousands [of incidents] overall per year, then I would argue that the ratio between fining and actually fly-tipping is quite skewed and we to work on that.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fly-tipping across a city has fallen by more than a quarter in the last five years, a council&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":728149,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-728148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=728148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728148\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/728149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=728148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=728148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=728148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}