{"id":288705,"date":"2025-07-24T19:41:19","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T19:41:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/288705\/"},"modified":"2025-07-24T19:41:19","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T19:41:19","slug":"update-on-fly-tipping-investigation-after-huge-amount-dumped-on-breck-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/288705\/","title":{"rendered":"Update on fly-tipping investigation after huge amount dumped on Breck Road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The situation has become &#8220;unacceptable&#8221; for those around L4<\/p>\n<p>16:18, 24 Jul 2025Updated 16:18, 24 Jul 2025<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/0_WhatsApp-Image-2025-05-20-at-172414_cbe9dfec.jpg\" alt=\"Rubbish left dumped on Breck Road (Colin Lane)\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>Rubbish left dumped on Breck Road (Colin Lane)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Liverpool Council has issued an update on its investigation into widespread fly-tipping in a busy part of the north of the city. In May, a massive haul of detritus and waste was spotted abandoned on Breck Road in <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.liverpoolecho.co.uk\/all-about\/anfield\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Anfield<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Broken furniture, vacuum cleaners, baby items and a damaged fan were among the large amounts of rubbish left abandoned at the back of businesses in an alleyway in L4. Council officials confirmed they had been made aware of the large-scale dumping.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Two months on, there appears to be no resolution to the issues, with workers around the area telling the ECHO of the \u201cunacceptable\u201d environment they are experiencing. Now the city council has confirmed who is responsible for the problems.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Earlier this summer, a <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.liverpoolecho.co.uk\/all-about\/liverpool-council\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Liverpool Council<\/a> spokesperson confirmed the city\u2019s environmental enforcement teams would investigate the large amount of items left at the back of shops in Anfield. The council described the dumping as \u201cunacceptable\u201d and highlighted the seven-figure sums required to clean up fly-tipping city-wide.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Some have expressed their frustration at a perceived lack of action in the area. One worker, who asked to remain anonymous, said: \u201cThe entire alleyway is severely overgrown with weeds and is infested with flies and bluebottles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">\u201cThe health implications are significant; a council team recently re-bedded a sunken paving stone and informed us of an active rat run directly below. This alleyway is now acting as a feeding ground, posing a serious infestation risk.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/0_WhatsApp-Image-2025-05-20-at-172415_0a2e82a5.jpg\" alt=\"Rubbish left dumped on Breck Road (Colin Lane)\" loading=\"lazy\"  \/>Rubbish left dumped on Breck Road (Colin Lane)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">\u201cThis is an unacceptable living and working environment for residents and businesses alike and we require immediate action to be taken.\u201d Cllr Billy Marrat, whose ward backs onto Breck Road, said efforts had been made to gate off the alley way, but chains had been cut allowing people to dump their waste once more.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">It has now emerged that the city council is not wholly responsible for the area and work is ongoing to establish those responsible for the continued dumping.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">A Liverpool Council spokesperson said: \u201cWhenever we clear instances of fly-tipping, our environmental enforcement team will investigate to try and find the offender. An investigation into fly-tipping on Breck Road is currently active and, should there be sufficient and credible evidence to identify an offender, then appropriate enforcement action will be taken.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/0_WhatsApp-Image-2025-05-20-at-172415_840a4d2c.jpg\" alt=\"Rubbish left dumped on Breck Road (Colin Lane)\" loading=\"lazy\"  \/>Rubbish left dumped on Breck Road (Colin Lane)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">\u201cThe alleyway behind Breck Road is privately owned and all maintenance is the responsibility of the owners. We encourage residents to report all instances of fly-tipping and any evidence they have to help us find the people responsible.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">\u201cAll reports can be made at liverpool.gov.uk\/fly tipping.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The situation has become &#8220;unacceptable&#8221; for those around L4 16:18, 24 Jul 2025Updated 16:18, 24 Jul 2025 Rubbish&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":288706,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3843],"tags":[1120,67728,728,70,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-288705","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-anfield","9":"tag-breck-road","10":"tag-environment","11":"tag-science","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114909916980764829","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288705","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=288705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288705\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}