Lincolnshire County Council is being asked to back up its claim that not opening the tip two days a week has not had an effect on the increase in fly-tipping in South Holland.
South Holland District Council’s Performance Monitoring Panel has asked a representative from the authority that oversees the running of the tips to attend a meeting to answer question.
The district council is responsible for clearing up fly-tips but has continued to see increased reports.
It continues to hit targets, in doing so, but at the recent meeting of the panel it was queried if the county council owned Waste Recycling Centre only being opened five days a week was having an effect.
Coun Simon Walsh said: ”We’re told there’s no correlation between the opening hours and the fly tipping here and in Boston, and we know fly-tipping is on the increase.
“LCC seems to say there’s no correlation but is there any work being done on this?
“Are we just going to hide behind the fact it’s not a factor, even though it must be?”
The council voted to ask a county council officer to the next meeting.
Couns Angela Newton and Jane King raised that they had asked council officers at a recent meeting.
Lincolnshire County Council executive councillor for waste Daniel McNally responded at that authority’s Full Council: “We are seeing high levels of traffic at Spalding as well as Lincoln and Boston, predominantly on the Friday and the Saturday. Everyone is piling in on those days.
“We don’t have the issues on a Sunday, Monday and Tuesday.
“This is also having a knock-on effect on some of the skips being emptied. Sometimes the skips are full when we’ve three or four haulage vehicles trying to go to 11 different sites around the country.
“We’re working on it and we’ll get there in the end.
“What we are seeing in Spalding, and have seen in the past, is a vast amount of green waste going in there.
“Just as an example, in one month last year Spalding received 263 tonnes of green waste. Boston had 44 and Bourne 65.”
Speaking directly to Coun King, he continued: “What you could do is urge residents to use the green waste service at the district council or maybe try composting and encourage them to visit on a Sunday, Monday or Tuesday when it does seem predominantly quieter.
“Also, (residents can) just keep an eye on social media as we do post there when it’s going to be busy.”
