{"id":85594,"date":"2025-08-22T18:11:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T18:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/85594\/"},"modified":"2025-08-22T18:11:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T18:11:06","slug":"council-denies-fly-tipping-rusting-rubbish-in-oxford-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/85594\/","title":{"rendered":"Council denies fly tipping ‘rusting rubbish’ in Oxford park"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n A large amount of commercial waste was left unprotected in Cutteslowe Park for two months while Oxford City Council carried\u00a0out \u201cimprovement works\u201d in the park\u2019s pavilions.\n<\/p>\n

\n A concerned local, who wants to remain anonymous, approached the parks department, who was not responsible for the rubbish, after she saw children climbing and playing on the large pieces of metal waste.\n<\/p>\n

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\n She accused the council of hypocritical fly tipping, adding that other people would be prosecuted if they did the same thing.\n<\/p>\n

\n Oxford City Council confirmed the rubbish was produced by their activities but denied that it was fly tipping.\n<\/p>\n

\n The concerned resident said: \u201cI live in Oxford and use the park on a regular basis for dog walking and with my grandchildren.\n<\/p>\n

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\n \u201cThey\u2019ve left their rusting dangerous pile of rubbish for over two months, and I\u2019ve seen children attempting to push the water cylinder.\n<\/p>\n

\n \u201cI feel it\u2019s disgusting that we pay extortionate council taxes and would ourselves be prosecuted if we had dumped that waste in the park.\n<\/p>\n

\n \u201cIt is also ironic that the council have slapped \u2018doing good\u2019 all over their vans and yet they are quite happy to leave this dangerous building waste that is slowly rusting in an area of the park that is accessible to children and animals.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

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\n A spokesperson for Oxford City Council said: \u201cThis is not fly tipping.\n<\/p>\n

\n \u201cThese are the old tanks from the upper pavilion which forms part of the improvement works to both pavilions (Upper and Lower).\n<\/p>\n

\n \u201cThe improvement work to both pavilions involves replacement of all of the major plant, which will make it eco efficient, fit for purpose and will reduce utility bills significantly.\n<\/p>\n

\n \u201cThe old tanks are currently fenced off and the contractors will environmentally dispose of them in due course.\n<\/p>\n

\n \u201cIt is anticipated that all will be removed and dispose of together upon completion of both pavilions.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

\n The resident who spotted the rubbish confirmed to The Oxford Mail that fencing was added only after this paper raised the issue with the city council, about two months after the rubbish appeared.\n<\/p>\n

\n The city council also denied that the \u201cimprovement works\u201d to the Upper and Lower pavilions had anything to do with sewage leaks which affected visitors to Cutteslowe Splash Park this summer.\n<\/p>\n

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\n The council admitted that in June, a \u201cblocked drain\u201d caused sewage to spill out of a manhole outside the splash park which impacted \u201cpedestrian access\u201d, and said they subsequently received a complaint from a resident which they were investigating.\n<\/p>\n

\n Alison Rudge, who was visiting the splash park with her grandson at the time, said they were \u201ccovered\u201d in sewage.\n<\/p>\n

\n The council declined to give an update on the investigation when asked.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A large amount of commercial waste was left unprotected in Cutteslowe Park for two months while Oxford City…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":85595,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-85594","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\/85594","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=85594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85594\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}