Help us catch Marsh fly-tipper

Local residents are being asked to help track down a fly-tipper who has dumped rubbish on the Marsh twice within a matter of weeks.

Folkestone & Hythe District council was first alerted on 1 February to fly-tipping in Beckett Road, Brookland. The spot was just over the border in Rother so the council alerted neighbouring Rother District Council.

On 18 February another pile of rubbish was reported in Tickners Lane, Brenzett, just a few miles from the first incident.

The fact that the both piles of rubbish contained horse manure and stable wood shavings, were dumped within a few miles of each other and were both in remote locations would indicate that it’s the same fly tipper and that this person knows the area. 

Cllr Stuart Peall, Cabinet Member for the Environment

Although nothing was found amongst the rubbish in Beckett Road that could identify the culprit, TV packaging found at Tickners Lane sent an environmental protection officer at Folkestone & Hythe District Council on the trail.

From the labelling, our officer managed to find out that the 58-inch Panasonic television had been bought from Currys in Ashford. He visited the store and found out when the television had been sold, but it has been a cash sale and unfortunately there were no records that would identify the purchaser.

Cllr Stuart Peall

Included in the pile of rubbish at Tickners Lane were toys, building rubbish, a builder’s skip shoot and venting piping.

This could only have been dumped by someone using a large van or a lorry and I would ask anyone who has seen a vehicle of this type on rural lanes at night or seen anything that might have aroused their suspicions, to report it to us. We will follow-up any information that will help us catch whoever did this. We live in a beautiful district and none of us wants to see it blighted by fly-tipping. But we need evidence if we’re going to catch the culprits.

Cllr Stuart Peall

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