{"id":120662,"date":"2021-04-10T09:04:27","date_gmt":"2021-04-10T09:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/?p=120662"},"modified":"2021-04-10T09:04:27","modified_gmt":"2021-04-10T09:04:27","slug":"neighbours-fury-at-6ft-mountain-of-rubbish-dumped-in-garden-as-son-advertises-his-cottage-as-illegal-tip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/world-news\/neighbours-fury-at-6ft-mountain-of-rubbish-dumped-in-garden-as-son-advertises-his-cottage-as-illegal-tip\/","title":{"rendered":"Neighbour's fury at 6ft mountain of rubbish dumped in garden as son 'advertises his cottage as illegal tip'"},"content":{"rendered":"

NEIGHBOURS have been left furious at a 6ft mountain of rubbish after a son allegedly advertised his cottage garden as a TIP.<\/p>\n

Tonnes of waste was left strewn on a doorstep and then burnt in towering fires in leafy Upminster, Essex.<\/p>\n


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A sofa, bed, fridge, digger tyre and mounds of building waste cover the front garden next to a bustling road \u2013 where cars whizz by at 40mph.<\/p>\n

Fed up locals have called cops, firefighters and local council officials \u2013 but the piles of waste remain outside the 120-year-old countryside cottage.<\/p>\n

At points the refuse towers 6ft tall and spilled out onto a busy road, and neighbours say \u201chuge\u201d fires are lit once a fortnight to burn the waste.<\/p>\n

Locals claim flatbed trucks loaded with waste were turning up more than twice a day to dump the rubbish and it has been going on for nearly EIGHT WEEKS.<\/p>\n


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Neighbour Ken Lees, 76, told The Sun: \u201cIt is an illegal tip.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve lost count of the amount of times the fire brigade has been down.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think the son works but his cohorts have carried on dumping the rubbish when he is not there.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is very awkward, it is not too clever living here."<\/p>\n

The retired fencing manufacturer said: \u201cToday is a very still day but what concerns me is when the wind blows the rubbish goes up the street.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat is that going to cost the council, it is going to cost a fortune and we are all going to pay for it.<\/p>\n

Another local \u2013 who did not want to be named \u2013 said: \u201cAll his mates have been getting the rubbish and it has been dropped off there, he\u2019s been getting paid for it.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe fire brigade has been down here six or seven times and I don\u2019t mean little fires, they are huge."<\/p>\n

The son told The Sun Online yesterday that the waste had piled up after losing a family member – but refused to say more.<\/p>\n

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When asked if the festering mound would be tidied up, he answered: \u201cYeah,
yeah, of course it is.\u201d<\/p>\n

Council environment enforcement officers have served a community protection notice and officers have been in regular contact with the Fire Brigade, Environment Agency and the alleged offender.<\/p>\n

Havering Council leader Damian White said: "We have been dealing with an issue of significant amounts of rubbish being burned on private land.<\/p>\n

"This week, matters escalated as the rubbish had started to spill on to the grass verge outside the house, causing a potential road hazard and having a major impact on the local environment.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe council attended the site and took immediate action to clear the rubbish. <\/p>\n

"Officers continue to deal with the waste that remains on the private land, in partnership with the Environment Agency and London Fire Brigade."<\/p>\n