Fed-up Hucknall resident demands council does more to tackle fly-tipping nightmare
An angry Hucknall resident has called out Ashfield Council to start doing more stop constant fly-tipping around his and neighbours’ properties.
The man, who asked not to be named, lives on Chatsworth Drive and says the issue with fly-tipping has been going on for ages now with he, and others, suffering issues with rats and maggots getting into their homes.
He says on one occassion, a neighbour called the council about it and was allegedly told ‘if you don’t like fly-tipping, move house’.
He said he himself has been speaking to the council two or three times a week and nothing is being done to resolve the ongoing issue.
He said: “The council are coming out once a week or so to clear up fly-tipping on an almost industrial scale and it’s having no effect, fly-tippers are just coming back and dumping more straight away.
"I think people would like to know that their taxes are being spent on these clear-ups that the council is doing nothing to stop it.
“I’ve got CCTV evidence, my cameras are capturing number plates of the vehicles doing this, I’m telling the council all of this and they’re just taking no action.
"And that affects everyone in Ashfield with what it costs to keep clearing it up.
"And it’s not just me being affected, it’s everyone living in these flats.
"A neighbour had rats and then they sent a team out to kill them and they died in my walls so I then had maggots coming through my walls into my flat.
"I called them every day for two weeks telling them I had maggots and they needed to do something and after getting nothing, me and partner went down to the council offices and told them how disgusted we were and told them they’d have to call the police to move us from their offices because we weren’t moving until something was done.
"Within two hours, we had an appointment for someone to come and deal with it and we got compensation because they admitted it should have been dealt with way sooner.
"But had they dealt with the fly-tipping in the first place, we wouldn’t have had the problem with the rats and maggots.
The man is now demanding something is done, not just because the problem is a health hazard, but also because of the hit on the public purse.
He continued: “This affects all the tax payers in Ashfield, not just Hucknall, but everyone.
"I’m no expert in finances, but if the council are coming almost every week to clear this up, it’s got to be costing a lot of money and that’s going to be hitting tax payers hard.”
Your Dispatch has contacted Ashfield Council for comment.