News: Fly-tipping forces landowners to turn farms into 'forts'

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Fly-tipping forces landowners to turn farms into 'forts'​

Fly-tipping in England had to be cleaned up 1.08 million times by local councils in 2022-23, the latest government figures reveal.
Clearing the largest illegal tips cost £13.2m, but the number of court fines dropped by 17%, raising just £785,000. The figures, released on Wednesday, do not put a value on all fly-tipping costs and only cover public land. But private landowners say the scale of countryside fly-tipping is forcing them to turn farms into "medieval forts".

The Country Land and Business Association (CLA) said fly-tipping on private land and fields is "going unrecorded on a mass scale", and that concrete blocks and security fencing were being used to keep out waste criminals.

One farmer, Colin Rayner, who has 2,000 acres of arable land across east Berkshire and south Buckinghamshire, said he has waste dumped on his land almost every weekend.

Link to full article: https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-68007087

Link to fly-tipping statistics: https://www.gov.uk/government/stati...thority-fly-tipping-enforcement-league-tables