{"id":85751,"date":"2025-08-22T19:41:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T19:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/85751\/"},"modified":"2025-08-22T19:41:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T19:41:09","slug":"fly-tipping-fines-to-rise-as-bradford-council-gets-tough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/85751\/","title":{"rendered":"Fly-tipping fines to rise as Bradford Council &#8216;gets tough&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The current fixed penalty for fly-tipping of \u00a3400, which is cut to \u00a3300 for early payment, will be replaced by a three-tier system with a maximum penalty of \u00a31,000 for high level offences, \u00a3400 (\u00a3300 for early payment) for medium level offences and \u00a3150 for low level offences.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">High level offences include dumping hazardous or commercial waste, while medium would cover things such as a car boot load of domestic waste, and low level would apply to a single item being fly-tipped, the council said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Littering fines will be set at \u00a3150, but reduced to \u00a3100 for early payment, and householder duty of care fines, for hiring someone to dispose of their waste who then goes on to fly-tip it, will be set at \u00a3400, discounted to \u00a3250 for early payment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The council said the increased penalties would be accompanied by new measures to make it easier for people to take DIY waste to Household Waste Recycling Centres, as well as a reduction in weighbridge charges for vehicles taking commercial waste to the council&#8217;s waste transfer sites.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There will also be new measures to make it easier for people to take DIY waste to Household Waste Recycling Centres, according to the council.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ferriby said: &#8220;These changes send out a clear message that fly-tipping will not be tolerated. The penalties are getting tougher. Everyone benefits from having a cleaner district.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The current fixed penalty for fly-tipping of \u00a3400, which is cut to \u00a3300 for early payment, will be&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":85752,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-85751","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\/85751","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=85751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}