{"id":486721,"date":"2025-10-09T22:05:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T22:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/486721\/"},"modified":"2025-10-09T22:05:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T22:05:11","slug":"cars-chopped-up-and-left-dumped-on-glasgow-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/486721\/","title":{"rendered":"Cars chopped up and left dumped on Glasgow street"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Chopped-up cars have been dumped on the side of a street in Glasgow\u2019s Govanhill, as flytippers left a number plate attached in full view.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The pieces of broken vehicles appeared on Bankhall Street yesterday, much to the concern of residents.<\/p>\n<p>The random motor parts were left next to bins and images seemed to show vehicle parts stuffed into a grey metallic bin.<\/p>\n<p>The rubbish was reported to the local councillor Soryia Siddique, who conducted a site visit this morning to survey the mess and contacted the council about the issue.<\/p>\n<p>Describing Govanhill as a \u201cvibrant area\u201d, Councillor Siddique said: \u201cResidents in Govanhill are really fed up with continuous fly tipping. We need robust action.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is not just about cleaning \u2013 it is also about catching people who think this is acceptable.\u201d Residents need a clean, green area.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Labour local politician added: \u201cFlytipping is not acceptable anywhere and it is definitely not acceptable in Govanhill.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The area has been plagued with recurring problems with flytipping \u2013 with lanes and back courts targeted.<\/p>\n<p>There have been concerns expressed previously that people were travelling to the area to dump waste.<\/p>\n<p>Mattresses, furniture and black bags full of rubbish are among the assortment of waste left to be picked up.<\/p>\n<p>In December last year, a man received a \u00a33,277 civil penalty after the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) were contacted by Glasgow City Council following a report of fly-tipping in Kingarth Lane in the Govanhill area in July 2023.<\/p>\n<p>The council has recently expanded its clean-up teams with the creation of 200 new posts in street cleansing and parks operations.<\/p>\n<p>A Glasgow City Council\u00a0spokesman said: \u201cWe are aware of this issue and it will be dealt with appropriately.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>STV News is now on WhatsApp<\/p>\n<p>Get all the latest news from around the country<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaCESJzKgsNvKKNOYO2r\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">      Follow STV News <\/a>Follow STV News on WhatsApp<\/p>\n<p>Scan the QR code on your mobile device for all the latest news from around the country<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1758059248_2_whatsapp-qr.png\" alt=\"WhatsApp channel QR Code\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chopped-up cars have been dumped on the side of a street in Glasgow\u2019s Govanhill, as flytippers left a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":486722,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7826],"tags":[748,918,4884,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-486721","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-glasgow","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-glasgow","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-scotland","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115346482468322701","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486721","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=486721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486721\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/486722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}