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TV star Phil Spencer launches CLA Fly-Tipping Campaign and David Cameron gives his backing at CLA Game FairTV presenter Phil Spencer the star of Channel 4's popular Location Location Location show launched the CLA's Fly-Tipping Campaign on today Friday, 25 July at The CLA Game Fair. Phil joined CLA President Henry Aubrey-Fletcher in officially kicking off the campaign to win a fairer deal for landowners who have rubbished illegally dumped on their property.
The CLA with the help of Bernard Jenkin MP is campaigning for an amendment to the Environmental Protection Act (1990) to protect landowners from the blight of fly-tipping and to ensure more effective investigation of this criminal activity.
A demonstration Fly-Tip has been built for CLA staff at The CLA Game Fair site, Blenheim, Oxfordshire.
Posing in front of the fly-tip, Mr Spencer said: "I am backing The CLA Fly-Tipping Campaign because it is a problem for landowners and has been getting significantly worse.
"It is something I have family experience of as my family farm in Kent and have been fly-tipped many times. The last time it happened my dad went through the rubbish and found an envelope bearing the address of the person who had tipped it. So my dad took it back to him and put it in his garden!"
Earlier in the day, Conservative leader David Cameron had described the launch of CLA Fly-Tipping Campaign as "very important".
CLA President Henry Aubrey-Fletcher said: "It is the easiest thing in the world is to dump stuff by the side of the road, and the landowners have pick up the cost of clearing it up. People can support our campaign by signing our petition, on the CLA website, and contacting us if you have been fly-tipped. We need the evidence for our campaign."
The CLA is also calling for local authorities to allow landowners to take fly-tipped material to their local council dumps. Currently of these turn away fly-tipped material.
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