{"id":816399,"date":"2026-03-10T10:17:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T10:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/816399\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T10:17:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T10:17:11","slug":"two-hours-after-croydon-fly-tip-cleared-rubbish-is-dumped-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/816399\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Two hours after Croydon fly-tip cleared rubbish is dumped again&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Charlie Baker is head of environment services at Croydon Council. He thinks the reason the figures are so high is that it&#8217;s easy to report fly-tipping in Croydon via an app. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He also said the council clears tips very quickly which means it is a victim of its own success.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I do believe we are making a difference. That&#8217;s supported with our zero tolerance approach, along with the implementation of Fixed Penalty Notices (FPNs), and in cases like the one we&#8217;re clearing today, we will be looking to secure a prosecution through the courts.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;This year alone, we&#8217;ve issued 315 FPNs for environmental crimes, but there&#8217;s always more that we can do. In some cases, we are able now to issue fines up to \u00a31,000.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Significant cases like here, where we are confident we can secure a conviction, we will look to prosecute, and those fines, we&#8217;d be looking at anywhere in excess of \u00a34,000.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He added that working with local residents and communities brings in extra intelligence to help secure a conviction. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;That may be through ring doorbell footage, evidence that we&#8217;ve extracted from this site today.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Charlie Baker is head of environment services at Croydon Council. He thinks the reason the figures are so&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":816400,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3843],"tags":[728,70,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-816399","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-environment","9":"tag-science","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116204368393529147","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816399","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=816399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816399\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/816400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=816399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=816399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=816399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}