BROMSGROVE District Council has declared a ‘zero-tolerance’ approach to fly-tippers as it reveals it issued £5,930 worth of fines to people last year.
A total of 33 Fixed Penalty Notices (FPNs) were handed out between December 2024 and November 2025 – the authority’s first year of targeted enforcement action which was supported by Worcestershire Regulatory Services (WRS).
Patrols, intelligence from the community and investigative expertise from WRS led to the fines. Vehicle tracing, evidence analysis and witness liaison all helped the council identify dumpers and enabled it to take action.
Coun Peter Whittaker, Bromsgrove District Council’s portfolio holder for environmental services, said residents were rightly fed up with environmental crime, which is why the authority had ‘beefed up enforcement including by bringing in WRS’.
“With specialist intelligence and investigative support, we are better placed than ever to hold unscrupulous people to account.
“People need to know that if they dump waste on the public here, they can expect to be found, and face penalties all the way up to prosecution.”
One example on the Alvechurch Highway saw evidence in dumped mattresses, plywood and bin bags. This led investigators to a homeowner who had paid someone with a van to remove items from their garden without checking for a waste carrier’s licence or getting a receipt.
These breaches of their legal duty of care saw them pay an FPN of £160.
Anyone getting rid of rubbish via a third party should always check a waste carrier is on the Environment Agency’s public license register before using them to avoid falling foul of unlicensed ‘man with a van’ scams.
Anyone not doing this could end up fined if their waste is fly-tipped and they have failed to use a licensed carrier or keep a receipt.
Visit: bromsgrove.gov.uk/flytip to report fly-tipping on public land to the council and to help provide information that can help catch fly-tippers.
People can also visit: worcsregservices.gov.uk/all-services/enviro-crime or call 01905 822799 to report information about a suspected environmental crime to WRS investigators.
