'You can’t drive anywhere now without seeing a field with some rubbish dumped there'

Fly-tippers in Tameside have been warned the council will 'come down hard' on them as part of a crackdown on antisocial behaviour.

At the latest meeting of the council’s executive cabinet, council leader Ged Cooney raised the issue of fly-tipping as the team approved their new antisocial behaviour policy. The council have increased mobile CCTV coverage across the borough in order to catch any perpetrators in the act.

“People want to see action being taken through prosecution or other responses where they pay for what they have done,” Coun Cooney told the cabinet sitting within the Tameside One building.

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“Our enforcement team is coming down strongly on this now. It is not just about people being a nuisance, it is about our people and the nuisance it is causing the community.

“You have been warned, we will prosecute you.”

The meeting heard how residents are paying unlicensed rubbish collectors to dispose of their waste - which is ending up in local fields and beauty spots. The town hall bosses made it clear that their enforcement teams will track down who hired these fly-tippers to dump their rubbish and they will face prosecution as well where necessary.

Coun John Taylor added that licenced companies who dispose of waste properly should be promoted by the council so that residents know who can be trusted for hire.

“You can’t drive anywhere now without seeing a field with some rubbish dumped there,” Coun Cooney added. He explained that one resident contacted him recently about men in yellow jackets claiming to be council workers dumping a refrigerator in a field.

There will be a 12-week consultation on the new antisocial