Fly-tipping: Slough
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether her Department has had discussions with Slough Borough Council on their legal duty to remove fly-tipped waste located beside Stoke Road and the Slough Arm of the Grand Union Canal.
Answered by Mary Creagh
Defra has not had discussions with Slough Borough Council on the removal of fly-tipped waste beside Stoke Road and the Slough Arm of the Grand Union Canal.
Local authorities are responsible for the removal and disposal of fly-tipped waste on public land, and for fly-tipped waste in water on council land. Where waste is on private land, responsibility rests with the landowner or occupier, and councils have powers to require its removal.
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