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‘Fly-tipping survey results could not be more wrong’ says CLAThe CLA today (Tuesday, 23 September) hit back at a claim in a survey carried out by Defra's Keep Britain Tidy campaign that "all councils were judged to have fly-tipping and graffiti under control". CLA President Henry Aubrey-Fletcher said: "This statement just could not be more wrong. If councils have fly-tipping under control it is because the problems are being pushed somewhere else, this would explain why farmers and landowners are seeing a continual rise in fly-tipping on private land.
"We officially launched our fly-tipping campaign at The CLA Game Fair in July and the response we have had has been enormous - from petitions to case studies. This supports our view that this is an increasing problem."
The CLA President added: "We feel a dismissive statement like this does nothing but severely underestimate the issue as the causes of the problem are not being addressed.
"It is incredible these results are being managed in this way as when the CLA met with Defra's Joan Ruddock on the subject as it was clear that fly-tipping is on the increase."
The CLA president added: "Councils may well feel they have this in hand, but it is a growing expense to individuals and rural businesses."
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