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Fly tip at residents’ garages cleaned up with PCC fundingPublished 17/11/2020
Residents in Waltham Cross have had fly tipped rubbish cleared-up for free using money confiscated from criminals.
The service road for private garages in Abbey Road was blighted by repeated dumps of tonnes of white goods, household waste, black bags and demolition materials.
The Fly Tipping on Private Land Fund, run by the office of the Hertfordshire Police and Crime Commissioner, covered the £2,500 cost of clearing the site.
To stop the area being targeted again gates paid for by the residents and match funded by Broxbourne Borough Council have now been installed.
Hertfordshire Police and Crime Commissioner David Lloyd said: “This shows how committed all parties are to tackling fly tipping.
“Fly tipping is one of the crimes I hear most from the public. It blights our communities and causes substantial cost to innocent people, poses a danger to road users, livestock and wildlife.
“The fund was set up as I believe it is not right that businesses who are the victim of fly tipping are liable to pick up the considerable costs involved.”
The clean-up operations were paid for by the PCC using a £20,000 fund that was generated by the Proceeds of Crime Act (POCA). This is money that has been confiscated from criminals and put back into crime fighting and victim initiatives.
Councillor David Holliday, Broxbourne Council Cabinet Member for Environment and Transformation said “Fly-tipping is a scourge on the environment and is a crime. Broxbourne Council actively pursues fly tippers and anyone caught fly tipping can face a fine of up to £5000 or imprisonment.
“I feel strongly that no-one should have to pay to clear the aftermath of this criminal activity and I welcome use of this fund to help private landowners responsibly dispose of illegal waste dumped on their land”.
To be eligible for the funding landowners will have to prove they already have a waste disposal contract in place with an authorised collection firm.
The scheme is part of the county wide multi-agency and multi- channel campaign being run by the Herts Fly Tipping Group - #SCRAPflytipping.
Anyone interested in making a claim or finding out more information can contact the Environmental team at their district or borough council and mention the Police and Crime Commissioner’s private land fly tipping pilot. All contact details are available the PCC website https://www.hertscommissioner.org/fly-tipping.
BACKGROUND:
Over the last two years the PCC has committed over £130,000 through his Local Partnership Fund to help local authorities tackle fly tipping on public land across Hertfordshire.
The Hertfordshire Fly Tipping Group is a multi-agency taskforce including the Borough, District and County councils as well as the Police, Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner, Herts Fire & Rescue, the Environment Agency, the National Farmers Union and Keep Britain Tidy which has come together to improve how Hertfordshire responds to fly tipping.
The on-going work programme is resulting in improvements in enforcement capability across the county as well as the rollout of new technology to assist in identifying and prosecuting fly tippers.
The service road for private garages in Abbey Road was blighted by repeated dumps of tonnes of white goods, household waste, black bags and demolition materials.
The Fly Tipping on Private Land Fund, run by the office of the Hertfordshire Police and Crime Commissioner, covered the £2,500 cost of clearing the site.
To stop the area being targeted again gates paid for by the residents and match funded by Broxbourne Borough Council have now been installed.
Hertfordshire Police and Crime Commissioner David Lloyd said: “This shows how committed all parties are to tackling fly tipping.
“Fly tipping is one of the crimes I hear most from the public. It blights our communities and causes substantial cost to innocent people, poses a danger to road users, livestock and wildlife.
“The fund was set up as I believe it is not right that businesses who are the victim of fly tipping are liable to pick up the considerable costs involved.”
The clean-up operations were paid for by the PCC using a £20,000 fund that was generated by the Proceeds of Crime Act (POCA). This is money that has been confiscated from criminals and put back into crime fighting and victim initiatives.
Councillor David Holliday, Broxbourne Council Cabinet Member for Environment and Transformation said “Fly-tipping is a scourge on the environment and is a crime. Broxbourne Council actively pursues fly tippers and anyone caught fly tipping can face a fine of up to £5000 or imprisonment.
“I feel strongly that no-one should have to pay to clear the aftermath of this criminal activity and I welcome use of this fund to help private landowners responsibly dispose of illegal waste dumped on their land”.
To be eligible for the funding landowners will have to prove they already have a waste disposal contract in place with an authorised collection firm.
The scheme is part of the county wide multi-agency and multi- channel campaign being run by the Herts Fly Tipping Group - #SCRAPflytipping.
Anyone interested in making a claim or finding out more information can contact the Environmental team at their district or borough council and mention the Police and Crime Commissioner’s private land fly tipping pilot. All contact details are available the PCC website https://www.hertscommissioner.org/fly-tipping.
BACKGROUND:
Over the last two years the PCC has committed over £130,000 through his Local Partnership Fund to help local authorities tackle fly tipping on public land across Hertfordshire.
The Hertfordshire Fly Tipping Group is a multi-agency taskforce including the Borough, District and County councils as well as the Police, Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner, Herts Fire & Rescue, the Environment Agency, the National Farmers Union and Keep Britain Tidy which has come together to improve how Hertfordshire responds to fly tipping.
The on-going work programme is resulting in improvements in enforcement capability across the county as well as the rollout of new technology to assist in identifying and prosecuting fly tippers.
