Fly-tipping blights James Turner Street in Winson Green
This is the sight of rubbish piled along Birmingham’s notorious ‘Benefits Street’.
Fly-tipped settees stacked with black bin bags, household and garden waste has been dumped on James Turner Street in Winson Green.
Councillor Chaman Lal said the problem had been going on for “years” and the trash returns “as fast as you would pick it up.”
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John Cotton, the head of the council, said they had issued 259 Fixed Penalty Notices issued in nine months and urged people to report fly-tipping.
Coun Lal said: “It looks like this every week, it comes back as fast as the council can pick it up.
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“I think it is the dodgy removal companies who charge people to pick their rubbish up and they leave it there.
“People have been complaining about it for years. We need a deterrent like cameras.”
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The residents of James Turner Street featured in a contentious documentary which aired a decade ago, featuring characters such as White Dee, Black Dee and Fungi.
It chronicled the lives of those on benefits, with reports suggesting that 90 per cent of residents were welfare recipients.
Majid Mahmood, Cabinet Member for Environment and Transport, said previously: “Fly-tipping harms where we all have to live and work and is carried out by environmental criminals that have no regard for our neighbourhoods or their well-being.
“When fly-tipping occurs, we act as quickly as possible.
“Our crews clear hundreds of fly-tipping reports each week. This is in addition to the work our neighbourhood crews undertake to clean up across the city.
“Everyone needs to play their part in maintaining a clean environment.
“We have plenty of lawful options for people to responsibly dispose of waste or unwanted items.”