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Tip closure blamed for rubbish-dumping spike

Seb Cheer
BBC News, Yorkshire
BBC/Seb Cheer A young man with blond hair stands outside, looking into the camera lens. He is wearing a grey hoodie and navy coat, as well as a light blue lanyard which says "We're Kirklees" on it. Behind him is a pile of brown sofas, and a luscious green landscape in the background.BBC/Seb Cheer
Councillor Joshua Sheard said rubbish dumping in Birstall had increased following the closure of the local household waste recycling centre

More rubbish has been dumped on a road in West Yorkshire following the closure of a local tip, an opposition councillor has claimed.

Nab Lane household waste recycling centre (HWRC) in Birstall shut on 10 November, as part of a plan by Kirklees Council to save nearly £200,000.

Conservative councillor Joshua Sheard said Bankwood Way had become "Birstall's new DFS" because of the number of sofas being dumped.

The authority said it had asked the landowner to clean up the private road, and was "closely" monitoring any rise in fly-tipping.

Sheard said rubbish had previously been dumped on Bankwood Way, but the HWRC closure "only exacerbated the problem".

"You've got mattresses and a fridge which have just been thrown in the bush, and further down you get mounds of soil and rubble, which have thankfully now been cleared up," he said.

While soil and rubble could not be recycled at the Nab Lane HWRC, Sheard said: "It proves that there was already a fly-tipping problem in the area, so why close a household waste and recycling centre and just make it harder for people to [legally] tip":[]}