Lewisham mayor's fly-tipping claim rubbished

24 October 2008

LEWISHAM Council has one of the highest rates of fly-tipping in the country, according to Liberal Democrats councillor Brian Robson.

It has the third highest incidence of fly-tipping in London and the fourth highest in England.

Data collated from April 2007 to March 2008 by Flycapture, the government's fly-tipping database, shows that Lewisham had a total of 53,896 incidents of rubbish being fly-tipped.

The Flycapture figures show that Lewisham has 14 times the number of fly-tipping incidents of an average English local authority, three times the number of incidents of the average London borough, twice that of neighbouring Southwark and 10 times that of neighbouring Greenwich.

Brian Robson, Lib Dem councillor for Lee Green, said: "Once again Lewisham is at the top of the wrong type of league table. This is just proof of what many local residents know – fly-tipping is at epidemic proportions and Labour-run Lewisham Council is rubbish at tackling it.

"Whilst the Labour Mayor continues to charge people to dispose of large items and fails to fully use the council's powers to prevent this criminal activity, our community will continue to suffer."

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