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| Recent fly-tipping in Allt-yr-yn |
Whether you live in Allt-yr-yn, Pill, Tredegar Park, St Julians or anywhere else in Newport - fly tipping is a problem – with rubbish and waste being dumped in quiet streets, nature reserves, in fields or in the drainage reens on the levels (something which aggravates drainage problems and flooding). Newport City Council is directly responsible for removing dumped items from any council owned land, including housing estates, grass areas, parks and reens, canals and public highways.
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| Recent fly-tipping in Allt-yr-yn |
The South Wales
Argus (back in July 21015) reported that there were more than 7,000 fly-tipping
reports but only five prosecutions in the last four years in Newport, a Freedom
of Information request showed. No-one was taken to court in the city between
April 2011 and March 2014 and the five offenders the council prosecuted in
2014-2015 were handed fines totalling just £2,600, the Argus reported.
It was noted in 2015 that fly-tipping
costs Newport council tax payers £300,000 a year. Fly-tipping in Newport by and large fell in the
four years between 2010 and 2014, with 2,014 reports in 2011-12, 1,982 in
2012-13, 1,578 in 2013-14 and 1,672 in 2014-15, totalling 7,246, the Freedom of
Information request showed. In February 2017 the
South Wales Argus reported that 135.8 tonnes of waste was picked up by the Pride in Newport team since
it was launched.
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| Recent fly-tipping in Allt-yr-yn |
It remains one of those anti-social problems that plagues all of our communities across Wales affecting both relatively well off and less affluent communities of our country and our city. It affects both rural and urban areas equally and despite the best efforts of financially strapped county councils shows little sign of being discouraged or curbed.
Domestic waste aside much, but not all, a significant amount of the
dumped waste appears to be construction or builders waste – something that may
well be aggravated by the charge that commercial concerns face at some refuse
sites (including Newport). What’s needed is to develop a realistic all agency approach, which can bring an
end to the problem of fly tipping – something that may involve accepting
commercial waste at the tip for no fee.
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