""What we believe has happened here is some unauthorised waste has been dumped." Peter says he thinks the waste has come from a barber-shop before he triumphantly pulls out a scrap of paper revealing details of the business. "So now we'll use that evidence to issue a fixed penalty notice for fly-tipping on that address," says Eiman, who is Lewisham's planning enforcement manager and interim environmental enforcement manager."
"As with numerous areas across the UK, fly-tipping is a major problem in the borough. Last year it received more than 38,000 reports of fly-tipped waste and spent 600,000 to clear up the mess, although it estimates the overall cost of the problem when including the likes of enforcement and the impact on businesses to be in the millions. As such, it has a team of 17 enforcement officers who patrol its streets hunting out those dumping waste illegally."
Beside Ladywell's main street, enforcement officers sift dumped rubbish to find evidence linking waste to businesses. Officers identified a barber shop from a scrap of paper and used the item as evidence to issue a fixed-penalty notice for fly-tipping. Lewisham received more than 38,000 reports of fly-tipped waste last year and spent 600,000 on clearance, with total costs including enforcement and business impacts estimated in the millions. The borough employs a team of 17 enforcement officers who patrol streets and target hotspots where authorised collection points attract additional illegal dumping. Human behavior contributes to pile-up at collection sites.
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