More than two-thirds of Cheshire East fly-tipping incidents last year took place in Crewe, new data shows.
The figures, released after a Freedom of Information request from the Local Democracy Reporting Service, show where the borough’s fly-tipping hotspots are.
And Crewe has by far and away the worst offenders.
Of the 3,235 total incidents recorded in Cheshire East from April 2020 to the end of the year, 2,164 — or 66.9% — were in Crewe.
In Nantwich there were 61 incidents reported, while other towns included Alsager with 86 and Macclesfield with 288. (see map, below)
Now, Cheshire East Council says it has developed a ‘new fly-tipping policy’ to combat the problem — which it attributes to ‘poor domestic waste management’.
The council says it has developed a ‘new waste management and fly-tipping policy’ to combat the problem.
Paul Bayley, director of environment and neighbourhood services, said: “The council takes any incidents of fly-tipping across the borough extremely seriously and we are particularly focused on this in Crewe, where reported incidents are highest.
“We are taking direct action to address fly-tipping and poor domestic waste management through the launch of a pilot scheme called ‘Cleaner Crewe,’ which will begin soon in some streets in Crewe South.
“The scheme will see the council focus on alleyways between streets, where there have been, and still are, problems with poor domestic waste management and fly-tipping.
“Our thorough research has shown that the problem we are dealing with, is predominantly around the mismanagement of household waste.
“Under the powers of a section 46 notice, our officers will make the expectations for residents clear, in terms of bin and waste management.
“We will then use an approach we call the four Es – ‘engage, educate, encourage, enforce’ if these expectations are not followed.
“Over the summer months we will be working with Crewe residents to clean up their town and help encourage civic pride, making this a sustainable approach for everyone.”
Across England, more than one million fly-tips are estimated to take place every year — with Keep Britain Tidy claiming it cost £58 million to clear up the waste in 2016/17 alone.
It is a serious criminal offence, and carries the threat of imprisonment or an unlimited fine.
You can report fly-tipping via Cheshire East Council’s website.
(Map courtesy of local democracy reporting service)
The council has a terrible policy of stopping people from tipping bricks and rubble into the skips on the sites, and trying to charge you by the brick to put them into the skips, and now they are moaning about fly tipping all over the South Cheshire. Allow house residents to put odd bricks into the skips and pallets into the wood skips without charging extortionate fees, see you are the reason for the fly tipping, allow to put domestic residents put unwanted items into the skips, free of charge.