Buckinghamshire Council<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\n The latest discovery has highlighted wider concerns about fly-tipping across the county, particularly in rural communities where quiet lanes, fields and footpaths can become targets for illegal dumping.\n<\/p>\n
\n Against that backdrop, David Moore, the Conservative Buckinghamshire councillor for Farnhams and Stoke Poges, has called on the Government to introduce tougher enforcement measures.\n<\/p>\n
\n In a Facebook post published on October 9, Mr Moore said fly-tipping across Buckinghamshire villages was “reaching breaking point”.\n<\/p>\n
\n He said country lanes and verges were being repeatedly targeted and argued that residents, taxpayers and volunteers should not be left to deal with the consequences.\n<\/p>\n
\n As part of a consultation by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA), Mr Moore has written to ministers urging stronger powers to tackle offenders.\n<\/p>\n
\n In his letter, he said: “Residents are fed up with our countryside being treated as a free tip while taxpayers and volunteers are left to clear up the mess.”\n<\/p>\n
\n Mr Moore, who co-founded the South Bucks Wombles litter-picking group, said he supports tougher penalties for offenders, including recovering clean-up costs and requiring fly-tippers to carry out supervised environmental clean-up work.\n<\/p>\n
\n He also called for greater enforcement resources, stronger cross-boundary intelligence sharing and tougher action against repeat offenders.\n<\/p>\n
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It was found by local resident Mark Wallace (Image: Mark Wallace)\n<\/p>\n
\n In the Facebook post accompanying the letter, he wrote: “Make fly tippers clear up their crap.”\n<\/p>\n
\n He added: “Our residents, taxpayers and volunteers should not be left clearing up after those who deliberately trash our countryside.\n<\/p>\n
\n “If you fly-tip, there must be consequences.”\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\n While there is no suggestion that the Stokenchurch fly-tip is connected to the concerns raised by Mr Moore, both cases underline the ongoing challenge posed by illegal dumping across Buckinghamshire.\n<\/p>\n
\n Robert Carington and Shade Adoh, both councillors for Ridgeway West, said: “We are saddened to see this brazen fly-tipping incident on a beautiful countryside location.\n<\/p>\n
\n “It is a disgusting and disrespectful criminal act which is an attack on our lovely countryside.\n<\/p>\n
\n “Thank you for those who have reported this and we would urge the public and farmers to be vigilant and report anything which looks like it may be fly-tipping, so the council can investigate and, where possible, prosecute.”\n<\/p>\n
\n Ade Osibogun, Buckinghamshire Council’s Cabinet Member for Environment, Climate Change & Waste, added: “The scale of the fly-tipping shown in these images is shocking.\n<\/p>\n
\n “Fly-tipping is an unacceptable and anti-social crime that damages our environment, blights local communities and places an unfair burden on landowners and taxpayers.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
\n “An Enforcement Officer will visit the site, establish land ownership and gather any evidence that could help identify those responsible.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cWe use a combination of investigation, enforcement, education and targeted surveillance to identify those responsible and to deter further offences. Our approach is delivering results.”\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cWe continue to encourage residents to report all incidents of fly-tipping through FixMyStreet<\/a> as this ensures all reports are directed to the appropriate teams for investigation and clearance.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Resident Mark Wallace said he made the discovery while walking his dog along a footpath leading to fields…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":801548,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-801547","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\/801547","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=801547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801547\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/801548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=801547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=801547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=801547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}