When an Ashford woman paid £650 for a house in Kingsnorth to be cleared she failed to check that she was using a waste collector registered with the Environment Agency…
Three Ashford people have each been issued with a £400 Fixed Penalty Notice following a fly-tipping incident investigated by Ashford Borough Council’s Environmental Enforcement Team. The council reported that in…
Photo: Ashford Borough Council – An Ashford landowner who ignored repeated warnings to stop allowing waste to be brought onto his land and burnt has been sentenced to 26 weeks…
Enforcement work in the Canterbury district to tackle a range of environmental offences such as littering is to be carried out by a new private company. Following a formal procurement…
Library image Dover District Council has thanked Gurkha soldiers and their families, who joined forces for a community litter pick this weekend around the Burgoyne Heights area in Dover to…
Environmental heroes Photo: DDC Dover District Council has celebrated some of the district’s unsung community heroes with their brand new Environmental Hero awards – thanking those who work tirelessly to…
The Country Land and Business Association (CLA) has welcomed Government plans to scrap DIY waste charges, calling them ‘desperately needed’ at a time of record levels of fly-tipping. Households would…
Competition winners congratulated – Emily Barlow, Jessie Reardon and Charlie Barr are pictured with Cllr Martin Bates Dover District Council has teamed up with our recycling, refuse and street cleansing…
Dumped waste near fly-tippers home on the Brookfield Road Photo: Ashford Borough Council Ashford’s Environmental Enforcement Team has investigated more than 70 suspected cases of fly-tipping since the turn of…
Maidstone Borough Council’s (MBC) Waste Crime Team joined forces with Kent Police’s Rural Task Force and Roads Policing Unit, pictured below, in joint operations to stop people illegally dumping their…
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