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Peter Black and South Wales West Liberal DemocratsRepresenting Aberavon, Bridgend, Gower, Neath, Ogmore, Port Talbot, and Swansea |
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Fly-tipping mountain costing Welsh taxpayers £3m a year
June 19, 2007 1:47 PM
Peter Black and Nick Tregoning recycle
Fly-tipping is scarring the face of urban and rural Wales and costing taxpayers millions of pounds to clear up according to evidence obtained by the Welsh Liberal Democrat Assembly Member, Peter Black.
He has had figures from the Welsh Assembly Research Service that reveals that there were more than 55,000 cases of fly-tipping across Wales in the last financial year. The total cost of clearing this material fell on local Councils, who between them spent £2.9 million on this activity.
As would be expected the three largest Councils in Wales top the list with 21,792 tipping incidents in Cardiff, costing just over £1m to remove, 7,401 incidents in Swansea costing £414,000 and 3,748 incidents in Rhondda Cynon Taf at a total cost of £155,000. In the South Wales West region, Neath Port Talbot had 1,631 incidents at a cost of £152,000 and Bridgend tackled 1,074 incidents at a cost of £178,000.
Commenting on these figures, Peter Black said: "Fly tipping creates misery and can blight communities. It is an anti-social activity that undermines community life, can attract vermin and costs taxpayers huge amounts of money each year to put right."
"It affects both urban and rural areas equally and yet, despite the huge effort by local Councils and private landowners to clean it up, it results in very few prosecutions. We need a more effective enforcement regime but we also need greater vigilance by the public and a willingness to testify or co-operate in prosecutions. We should not have to tolerate such activity."
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