Angryresidentscontact PTover fly-tipping sites

“Perhaps the headline should be welcome to dirty Peterborough. It’s absolutely filthy.” That is the view of Neville Tustin, owner of the Penny Lane second-hand shop in Fitzwilliam Street. Mr Tustin said it took several calls for rubbish next to a closed down restaurant in Broadway to be removed. He was one of three people to contact the Peterborough Telegraph in the past week over fly-tipping. John Denny (69) of Lincoln Road said white vans were dumping rubbish at Brassey Close, off Lincoln Road, in the early hours of the morning. “No-one seems to want to do anything,” he said. “Amey said it won’t come because it’s private prop- erty.” Another resident, who wished to remain anonymous, said he had moved into Newborough a year ago and was shocked by the fly-tipping at Norwood Lane, a well-known grot spot. Adrian Chapman, council service director for adult services and communities, said: “Where waste has been fly-tipped on private land, we will notify the land owner so that they can arrange for it to be cleared. “Norwood Lane has been a fly-tipping hotspot for a number of years. We are taking action and we’ll soon be installing a gate that only residents of Norwood Lane will have access to.”