{"id":145219,"date":"2025-05-30T22:23:14","date_gmt":"2025-05-30T22:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/145219\/"},"modified":"2025-05-30T22:23:14","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T22:23:14","slug":"fly-tipping-hotspot-the-tip-of-the-iceberg-in-dump-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/145219\/","title":{"rendered":"Fly-tipping hotspot the tip of the iceberg in ‘dump town’"},"content":{"rendered":"

The issue of rubbish across the area has led to one resident hitting out\"RubbishedRubbished dumped on Lime Street, Dukinfield(Image: Peter Potts)<\/p>\n

A fly-tipping hotspot in Dukinfield has left one man frustrated by how much of a \u2018dump\u2019 his town has become.<\/p>\n

Peter Potts has a garage on Lime Street, just off the main strip of King Street in the Tameside<\/a> town. In the past six months it has become a spot for fly-tippers to dump their rubbish, much to the upper Dukinfield resident\u2019s annoyance.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s even had to clear rubbish other people have dumped in front of his garage, just to access it.<\/p>\n

Peter said: \u201cI\u2019ve been reporting the same fly-tipping issue since November last year. While the rubbish usually gets cleared within a day or two after I raise it, the problem returns week after week \u2014 with zero long-term solution in place.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor the past six weeks, I deliberately stopped reporting it just to see what would happen. Unsurprisingly, nothing did and now the rubbish is worse than ever.<\/p>\n

\"RubbishedRubbished dumped on Lime Street, Dukinfield(Image: Peter Potts)<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve even had to move dumped waste just to access my own garage. It feels like the system only works when residents complain.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhy aren’t the council teams or bin crews reporting this when they pass it every week? I\u2019ve emailed the Tameside Council fly-tipping contact multiple times and never had a single reply.\u201d<\/p>\n

But the problem of rubbish dumping doesn\u2019t just relate to the area around his garage, Peter says it\u2019s a Dukinfield issue in particular. He wants to see more security cameras put up so the council can crack down on the perpetrators.<\/p>\n

He also suggests bigger bins with an allocated place to put them as a possible solution for the local authority.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are always bins all over the place though and people leave rubbish everywhere,\u201d Peter added. \u201cIt\u2019s just what happens now.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s like the broken window theory, so when people see rubbish everywhere, they dump some as well. Dukinfield is a dump now, especially the bottom end.<\/p>\n

\u201cI used to live two streets away from Lime Street where my garages are. Around three quarters of the homes around there are HMOs now.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople around there don\u2019t take pride in their area. There was a sense of community before, now that\u2019s gone, it\u2019s eroded away.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"RubbishedRubbished dumped on Lime Street, Dukinfield(Image: Peter Potts)<\/p>\n

In response, a Tameside Council spokesperson said: \u2018\u2019Fly tipping is illegal and dangerous, we do not tolerate it in Tameside. We always take enforcement action when an offender can be identified and encourage support from residents to prosecute them.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe latest figures from the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs show that in 2023\/24 we issued 236 fixed penalty notices for fly tipping \u2013 more than anywhere else in the north west.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the same year, five people were prosecuted for waste related offences.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo ensure waste is safely removed and the crime can be investigated, residents can report incidents online at www.tameside.gov.uk\/flytipping or contact our customer service team on 0161 342 8355.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The issue of rubbish across the area has led to one resident hitting outRubbished dumped on Lime Street,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":145220,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3843],"tags":[728,285,70,16498,1026,16499,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-145219","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-environment","9":"tag-politics","10":"tag-science","11":"tag-stalybridge-and-dukinfield","12":"tag-tameside","13":"tag-tameside-council","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114599126911877751","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145219\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}