Bolton Council hands out £1000s in fly tip fines over a week

The fines were given out around the Rumworth area, which includes parts of Deane and Daubhill, coming to around £3,750.

This comes as Bolton Council prepares to increase the maximum fines that can be given to people for fly tipping and littering.

A council statement said: “Our Enforcement Team were in Rumworth this week.

“Ten Fixed Penalty Notices were issued, totalling £3,750.”

Rubbish was left out in the open (Image: Bolton Council)

They added: “We are clamping down on illegal dumping, which blights our streets and costs council-tax payers to clean up.”

The ten notices were handed out for eight fly-tipping incidents, one case of littering and one “duty of care offence.”

Bolton Council officials have warned about fly tipping (Image: Bolton Council)

Duty of care offences refer to people who fail in their duty to take care of household waste.

Images supplied by Bolton Council show cardboard boxes, bags of rubbish, old furniture and other kinds of waste strewn across the streets in question.

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Earlier this month the council approved plans to raise the steepest fines for littering from £150 to £300 and from £400 to £600 for fly tipping and from £400 to £600 for duty of care offences.

Speaking when the fine rises were approved, cabinet member for regulatory services Cllr Sue Haworth welcomed the increase.

She said: “Fly tipping and littering are issues that blight our borough, negatively impacting the lives of residents and business owners as well as costing the council to clear up the mess.

“We will continue to do everything we can to find those responsible for waste offences and hold them to account.”