Farmer’s fury as everything AND kitchen sink is dumped
A FURIOUS farmer is on the hunt for the fly-tippers who dumped an entire commercial kitchen complete with takeaway menus - on his land.
Included in the waste, believed to be from a refit in Stockport, is a fridge, a separate freezer, a toilet and lots of building material.
Scores of flyers from a takeaway were also dumped with the rubbish at Moss Side Farm, Rixton, near Warrington.
But the clue hasn’t helped farmer Andrew Sharpe and his son Jack track down exactly where the rubbish came from.
The culinary garbage was dumped in the dead of Saturday night on a farm track about 500 yards off the busy Manchester Road.
Menus from a takeaway in Stockport, were included in the rubble.
The premises, on Castle Street, has recently been subject of an overhaul, and the current eatery Chicklicious - claims to have no knowledge of the fly-tipped kitchen.
In a telephone conversation recorded by Mr Sharpe and heard by the our sister paper the Manchester Evening News, a contractor who carried out the work admitted the rubble had come from the site on Castle Street.
There is no suggestion the owner of the takeaway knew the rubble would be dumped. But the contractor, called ‘Gareth,’ claimed he had also been a victim of fly-tipping, and would be chasing down the culprit.
He said he would try to get in touch with the company which dumped the rubbish and get it removed.
The Sharpe family have been unable to contact him since that initial phone call.
Now, they are reporting it as an incidence of fly-tipping to Warrington Borough Council.
“I’ve a good mind to load it on to the back of one of my trailers and deliver it back to them,” said Mr Sharpe, 61, whose family have been growing crops on the land since the Second World War.
“But I’d probably get into trouble. So we’ll let the appropriate authorities deal with it and hopefully they will face a hefty fine.”
Mr Sharpe, his wife Bettina and son Jack, farm more than 1,300 acres of arable land and employ about four other people.
Mr Sharpe added: “Getting that cleared up will cost the best part of £800. It’s an appalling thing to do. Whoever did it deserves what’s coming to them.”
When the Manchester Evening News contacted Chicklicious, the respondents denied all knowledge of the incident and refused to comment.