Flytipping and rubbish now hitting cemetery sites across Doncaster

Concerns over burial sites being spoiled by the growing issue, which council bosses admit is worsening in the borough, were raised in the latest Doncaster Free Press round table discussion, which focused on flytipping and litter.

It is also revealed that officials are considering closing off certain areas to vehicles amid rising levels of tipping.

We’re publishing the discussion in three parts, with part two to appear next week.

Free Press community engagement editor David Kessen chaired the discission. Our panel was Robert Scarborough, Doncaster Council environmental crimes officer; Andy Rutherford, council head of street scene and highways operations; Nigel Cannings, litter pick organiser in Tickhill; John Brooks, council enforcement officer, Bex Shaw, Doncaster Green Team; Jackie Dusi, Arksey Ladies Community Group; Clarissa Jackson, Warmsworth Environmental Group; and Gaynor Spencer, Keeping Rossington Tidy.

How much of a problem is litter and flytipping for our communities and what sort of problems are we seeing it create?

Clarissa Jackson: Flytipping I think is huge at the moment. In Bassetlaw, they are putting skips in villages for the public to fill, as a free service. The problem is horrendous. In Warmsworth you’ve got issues at Broomhouse Lane, Lords Head Lane, and Common Lane. At the hairpin bends going down towards Sprotbrough, there’s a fence that’s breached quite often because unfortunately highways won’t put bollards in front of it, and where we see boilers and trade waste dumped. The other thing, which is a major concern, is Guest Lane cemetery, near where there is a big fly tipping site. The last thing you want if you’re going to visit someone in a cemetery is flytipping. You’re going to visit someone in a cemetery, and there is a load of litter. I think we need some covert cameras. It’s all right residents coming to me, and me ringing it in to the council and getting it removed, but they’re not ringing themselves. We’ve got cards printed to give out but no one is prepared to ring it in.

Jackie Dusi: Where we are we’ve had a spate of dead horses. It costs £100 for someone to take them away. They may charge the council even more to remove a dead animal. You see trucks full of conifers, take the number, report it, and then hear its false plates.