FLY-TIPPING enforcement will be ramped up in the council’s war against illegal dumping that costs taxpayers more than £300,000 a year to clean up.
The pledge for more enforcement action was made by council chiefs at a meeting on Wednesday during discussions on how it will respond to recommendations made by a special group of councillors and officers tasked with investigating fly-tipping and what is being done to tackle the problem.
Those recommendations include an action plan for 2017/18 that has been drawn up to help the group reach its goal of reducing fly-tipping by 25 per cent by 2020 - that’s about 2,700 incidents a year.
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