Giant dumping ground

RUBBISH dumped in an alley off Rochdale Road, Royton

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ONLY a week after Oldham Council’s plea to residents to clean up their act, fly-tippers have struck again - on land recently cleared of rubbish.

A week after the Evening Chronicle reported pictures of sofas, mattresses, chairs, carpets, building waste, a supermarket trolley and even baths tipped in a formerly pristine square behind homes in Clarksfield, vandals returned to dump more.

After the first incident the owner of the privately-owned land behind Whitehouse Avenue was ordered to remove the rubbish. Most of it was taken away, but only a week afterwards two mattresses and pieces of wood were dumped again.

This time the rubbish was quickly removed — reportedly by the culprits — after a resident was spotted investigating it.

An angry resident said, “I think they were worried the paper would come down again and that’s why they moved it all.”

Chronicle photographers also discovered a huge mound of rubbish that has been left to build up in Fitton Hill. The land at Farm Hill Close and North Croft has had fridge freezers, building materials and windows dumped on it.

Another fly-tipping spot the Evening Chronicle has been alerted to is an alleyway on Oldham Road, Royton, where bags of rubbish and old chairs and gardening equipment have been dumped.

Local resident Mervyn Speed told the Chronicle that because people see rubbish there, they add to it.