The ‘bone idle’ fly-tippers will face big fines
Authority hopes financial deterrent will work
Scarborough Council is going to hit fly-tippers in the pocket in a bid to clamp down on illegal dumping.
The authority’s cabinet has brought in a £400 fine for those caught dumping waste.
The charge is the maximum allowed under Government legislation and, unlike other penalty notice fines, there will be no discount offered for early payment.
Alongside the fly-tipping penalty the council is also scrapping early fine payment discounts on a number of other environmental offences.
Littering and fly-posting will now land perpetrators an £80 fine, failure to comply with a commercial waste notice is an £100 penalty, £200 is the cost of abandoning a car and £300 for failing to provide waste documents.
Cabinet member Cllr Bill Chatt said that people who commit theses offences were “bone idle”.
He said: “Fly-tipping costs us an absolute fortune each year and enough is enough.
“Education will not work with these people, enforcement is the only way.
“The days of people dumping a three-piece suite on a grass verge and just waiting for the council to come and collect it are over,
“These people are bone idle, it’s as simple as that.
“They are lazy and this is going to hit them in the pocket.
“And if they don’t pay the fine then we will prosecute them and we will seek costs each time
“People are just littering in alleys but no-one is taking responsibility for it.
“People always call us and say it’s not their rubbish, well I guess it always belongs to Mr Nobody.”