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TWBC website ( tunbridgewells.gov.uk/
Fly-tipping … bins-and-recycling/report-fly-tipping ) List of organisations
Frittenden Community Facebook page -
The aim is then to get it cleared within 3
a bane of our days. Which in my experience is often the so many things you don’t need or use are
often just what another villager wants.
case and this target is achieved. They can
village life clear fly-tipping on publicly accessible land Hospice in the Weald Furniture Collection –
2-3 week lead time. www.hospiceintheweald.
but NOT from private land or property. If
org.uk/our-shops/your-donations
the fly tip is on the road or highway and it is
causing an obstruction you should contact www.smallsforall.org – donate new
Kent County Council on 03000 41 81 81. or lightly used bras or new knickers to
The magazine team have asked our local The real impact, however, isn’t a financial one.
councillor, Andy Fairweather, and a local When you spend your life looking after the So what do you think? Is the Council doing women and girls in Africa and the UK.
farmer, Paul Hope, for their views. land and earning your living from it, the fact enough to prevent and/or remove fly- https://freecycle.org Nonprofit who
that someone can just dump their rubbish and tipping? Is it fair the farmers have to pay to are giving and getting stuff for free in
Paul Hope, farmer their own Towns. It’s all about reuse and
run is utterly soul-destroying. Our Garden clear rubbish on the road-side of their field
Fly-tipping is one of the banes of a farmer’s of England is fast turning into the Dumping boundaries? What else might be done to keeping good stuff out of landfill!
life, featuring right up there with theft of Ground of England and the repercussions prevent this problem? Do let us know… Local Hygiene Bank, Co-Op Cranbrook –
farm machinery and livestock worrying. for the fly-tippers seem to be non-existent. With the refuse truck still suspended due to donate new, unused, in date toiletries, nappies
The quiet country lanes and isolated fields Andy Fairweather, Ward Member COVID, are our readers aware how we can rid of and sanitary products to local people in need.
that we love are also a fly-tipper’s dream.
for Frittenden and Sissinghurst, household rubbish? We’ve done some research, Many of the local charity shops are also
What is the impact on a landowner when Tunbridge Wells Borough Council but before you discard, remember the three Rs: eager for new donations of good quality
somebody dumps their rubbish on their land? clothes, books and other treasures.
This is dependent on the nature of the rubbish Recently we have suffered a spate of fly tipping Can it be Repaired, Council links
and the size of the load, but the obvious impact in Frittenden and Sissinghurst. A great many Can it be Recycled, tunbridgewells.gov.uk/bins-and-recycling/
is a financial one. A few years ago, somebody residents have contacted me and I have been Could it be Re-used? what-goes-in-your-bin/additional-items
opened the field gate at the end of Staplehurst working with officers from the town hall to Comments to: £45.60 per pick up for up to 5 bulky items (to
Road and generously deposited a whole lorry- address this. They have visited our parishes and frittendenparishmagazine@gmail.com include no more than 1 fridge or freezer).
load of waste in the field. Despite the owner of the provided new signage. I admit these are too small
waste being identified, there was no prosecution and placed in difficult to see/read positions. I have
and we picked up the bill for clearing the rubbish. fed this back. There are a few larger signs in more
effected areas and I have managed to find at least
There is also an environmental impact. We’ve had one. The council have purchased new surveillance
dirty disposable nappies, human waste along with cameras to be deployed to Borough hotspots.
wet wipes, black bags full of household rubbish, I am informed it is never disclosed when and
the remnants of a cannabis factory and even where due to a high level of thefts in the past.
burnt-out cars. All of these can be dangerous to These new cameras cost upwards of £1,000 each. NECK KNEE BACK PAIN SPORTS
our livestock, the wildlife and watercourses.
Officers have identified one source of INJURIES SPRAINS & STRAINS
The councils won’t clear anything more than fly tipping in Frittenden Rd and have
18 inches from the road edge. We went to war issued a £400 penalty notice. High Street, Staplehurst, TN12 0AD
with TWBC when a large pile of fly-tipping I think we are really hot on reporting fly tipping 01580 892266
appeared in a gateway on Mill Lane. They in our ward and I know many residents are fully
claimed it was on our land, we believed it was aware how to do this. I also report regularly when
on theirs. It took 9 months and a threat from I see dumped waste as I travel about between SUE SMITH. Grad.Dip.Phys., MCSP. HCPC.
us to claim the land around the gateway before our two villages. However, a reminder below. Serving the community for over 25 years.
it was cleared away. Desperate measures!

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