Residents manned the Preston Road car park gates until 2am in the morning at the weekend when they saw industrial level flytipping taking place. They took prompt action to prevent further rubbish being dumped.
I understand that around 10 vans were involved. One van was captured by police after residents phoned 999 with the number plate details. A resident said that participants pay one person and then others pile in. It is hoped that police have gained enough information to enable Brent Enforcement to follow up.
Brent Council and Cllrs should be ashamed of themselves. Sadiq Khan is also to blame. Litter and fly-tipping have become a real problem under his mayorship. London is now being described as s***-hole by many.
ReplyDeleteLondon’s been exactly that for a long time.
DeleteUnless they’re doing the flytipping how’s it their fault?
DeleteIt's their fault because...
Delete- they stopped weekly bin collections encouraging people to dump their additional rubbish;
- they stopped free bulky waste collections encouraging people to dump their rubbish;
- they limited what people could take to the tip encouraging people to dump their rubbish or to employ cheap waste contractors who take the waste away and then dump it;
- they allowed thousands of HMOs to open unchecked with landlords telling tenants to dump their rubbish rather than ordering more bins for all their tenants;
- they ignore residents' pleas for cctv at daily fly tipping hot spot areas;
- they negotiated contracts with Veolia which do NOT require Veolia to search all fly tipped rubbish for any evidence of who dumped it before removal, how many people have got away with dumping because of this poor decision???
- they have put in 'timed collection points' on our streets for flats which do already have purpose built refuse/bin areas which Veolia could drive into to pick up waste from and no-one at Brent Council checks who's leaving waste at these timed collection points nor do they enforce the times when waste should be left there and collected - the result is bags of unsightly waste dumped at these timed collection points all day leaving our streets looking like a tip;
- they have removed all litter bins on residential streets encouraging littering;
- they have given out alcohol licences to virtually every new local retail premises encouraging street drinking and littering;
- they have then allowed those street drinkers to gather in the same places everyday unchallenged making our public spaces feel unsafe and filthy from their littering.
Need we say more???
And NO don't say all of this is due to government cuts! It's not, it's due to poor management by Brent Council Executives and Officers on high salaries and who get paid despite poor results.
A bit ignorant to say it’s not down to government cuts over the last well over a decade. You’ve made a lot of assumptions. People like you hate all landlords 😂
DeleteI agree with anon of the list. If you want to hark back - cuts were terms and conditions of EU membership and labour bankrupted the country last time they were in power.
DeleteA good third of labour councillors are landlords
DeleteThere must be cctv in the area including ulez cameras to track the culprits???
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately no CCTV in the car park or John Billham Park, this is in my Kenton Ward and I visited yesterday and at least £20,000 worth of flytipped waste dumped. Thanks to Suzanne from Brent Parks a volunteer highlighted this incident as she lives a stone thiw away. I have requested CCTV a number of times but the Labour Administration think this is not necessary.
ReplyDeleteWe've been requesting cctv for over 7 years at a location near us where there is daily flytipping right next to peoples houses but just get every excuse under the sun from Brent Council for why they won't install it.
DeleteThat's the problem when you have highly paid Council Executives who live in lovely places like Oxford and just don't care about us here.
How often does dumping happen?
DeleteEveryday!
DeleteNo cctv in the station car park? That's very surprising to hear public safety wise.
DeleteWouldn't it be better for Brent Council to spend more money collecting our waste for free from our homes???
ReplyDeleteHow much are Brent Council spending on highly salaried council officers (who get paid despite poor results), council enforcement officers and Veolia employees working to catch offenders and clear all this dumped waste from our streets which does not them get recycled???
Do you realise how much of a lesser calibre of execs we’d have if we didn’t pay such salaries? There’s a systemic problem not just a Brent one. Brent’s not special when it comes to flytipping.
Delete"Anonymous27 December 2024 at 12:03 says
DeleteDo you realise how much of a lesser calibre of execs we’d have if we didn’t pay such salaries? There’s a systemic problem not just a Brent one. Brent’s not special when it comes to flytipping." - BUT do they not read the news? Brent is indeed special when it comes to fly tipping, our highly paid high calibre executives managed to get us to the top of the fly tipping league in England...
"Brent recorded the highest number of incidents of any England borough with 35,000 incidents in 2022-23."
BBC News - London boroughs see increase in fly-tipping
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-68029786
There are council league tables Brent comes out bottom for which tells you the salary has made no difference
DeleteSurely a higher number of recorded fly tips means something’s actually being done and therefore recorded
DeleteVeolia employees is useless I see them sitting in the park regularly just passing time looking at their phones and not picking any litter!
ReplyDeleteLoads of times we've seen Veolia remove fly tips we've reported but they leave the debris behind which means we then have to further report that the area needs cleaning - guess Veolia get paid for two visits to the same location???
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