What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
Two residents from south Leeds are the latest to feel the full force of the council’s legal powers to tackle flytipping. A woman from Hunslet and a man from Belle Isle both appeared before Leeds magistrates on Monday 18 April for offences under section 33 of the Environmental Protection Act
A senior councillor has joined crews in south Leeds to see first-hand their efforts to tackle flytipping. Councillor Mark Dobson, who is responsible for the council’s street cleaning and environmental action teams, took on the role of environmental action officer tasked with investigating and clearing a flytipping incident in a
A Beeston resident has been fined for flytipping close to an entrance to Cross Flatts Park. Mr Zulfiqar Ali of 61 Robb Street, Cross Flatts was found guilty in court under Section 33 of the Environmental Protection Act for fly tipping a sofa on Theodore Street, Beeston at the entrance
A south Leeds man has been fined for flytipping after returning from a trip abroad. Omand Obama Essama, of Harlech Road, Beeston, was fined £200, ordered to pay £100 costs and a £20 victim surcharge at Leeds Magistrates Court last week (22 January). A council street cleaning crew found bags
A Beeston property letting agent who failed to make sure his waste was disposed of properly has been hit with a costly fine. Following a prosecution by Leeds City Council, Mohammed Haroon Butt, director of Manor Properties (trading as Catlows) pleaded guilty on behalf of the company at Leeds Magistrates
John Adamson, who lives in Beeston, has been in touch about rubbish on Beggar’s Hill behind the Nosters: “Following a recent meeting of Beeston Community Forum I spoke to Tom Smith, who, apparently, is in charge of South Leeds cleaning, i.e. all the ginnels, dog dirt etc, I informed
A Leeds man has learned the hard way that business and flytipping do not make good bedfellows. Jonathan Jeffers of Fenton Place, Middleton, pleaded and was found guilty of dumping waste at Leeds Magistrates court last week. Jeffers was fined £600 and ordered to pay costs of £667.86 plus
The council is warning litter louts that a range of council officers can and will enforce the law if caught dropping rubbish. The advice comes as a man from Middleton was prosecuted having failed to pay a fixed penalty notice for littering issued by a council dog warden. Having
Local Councillors in South Leeds have agreed to fund projects that will be key in the fight against grime crime. With flytipping costing the council and private land owners hundreds of thousands of pounds a year to clean up, members of the Inner South Area Committee have agreed to purchase
A vehicle that was abandoned when two men were caught fly tipping off Holbeck Moor has been seized by the council and will be sold to pay for the fight against environmental crime. The flat bed truck was used to dump five tonnes of rubble on council land next to