oldnpastit – Member
Don’t local authorities now have the power to crush vehicles used for dumping? All they need is the license plate.
Is this true?
I caught a Transit Pickup tipping builders rubble in a lay-by in the Downs the other week.. I reported it to HCC but heard nothing about it..
Curious to know if they’ve progressed my complaint, but they dont give “updates”
But it’s not just Builders and Travellers.. I spotted Mrs Merc throwing two large bin bags of grass cuttings into a farmers field a few weeks back, I confronted her about it and she told me to F Off and so I took her reg plate, again complained to HCC but again heard nothing..
Is it really worth the bother I ask myself? then instantly I want to punch the offenders in the eye and fill their vehicle with the crap they’ve dumped.. so I’ve answered my own question.
But we’ve ended up being the Police in situations like this.. HCC ask us/we to provide the evidence of the flytip and take photos and give locations and effectively “police” the offence, then they do sweet naff all about it. If we get involved with the offenders it ends up in both offence and possible attack situations, if you call 101 they couldn’t give a rats bottom for the information and simply state “its a HCC report you need to complete” even when you’re sitting 200mtrs down the road watching the offence occur..
I get extraordinary wound up about this behaviour, I really shouldn’t GAS like 99% of the UK but I see it all the time.. riding and running the lanes and bridleways and footpaths of the South Downs brings me in direct contact with fly tipping and dumping and it gets right up my nose…. 😈