Businesses call for CCTV as fly-tipping continues

Business owners on an industrial estate have called for CCTV cameras to be installed following numerous fly-tipping incidents.

Tony Milson, 45, who runs a vehicle repair shop in Brook Road in Waltham Cross, Hertfordshire, said waste has been dumped at the site for the last four years.

He has been urging his customers to report the problem in order to prompt Broxbourne Borough Council to act.

A spokesperson for the authority said it had installed CCTV cameras at key fly-tipping hot spots and "other problematic locations, including the industrial estate in Brook Road, were under consideration".

Milson, who has run ACB Any Car or Bike since 2017, said "the pictures do not do it [the extent of the fly-tipping] justice".

He said he has captured it happening with his own cameras and it was "always the same white lorry and usually the same person doing it".

He said he had provided the evidence to Broxbourne Borough Council.

Last year he said there were six incidents of fly-tipping on the industrial estate including on 28 December, four days after another incident had been cleared.

This year business owners discovered a large amount of waste on 30 March outside TC Commercial Repairs, which is opposite ACB.

"I am riding a motorbike into work and came round the corner and nearly went on top of it," Milson said.

He contacted Hertfordshire Police and the waste was removed by the council the next day.

Milson said a door placard with a house number was found in the wooden waste dumped on 30 March along with correspondence matching the number.

He said the address suggested the waste had come from Essex.

The garage owner has been told by council officers that it costs £10,000 to remove the rubbish.

He has also been told that any evidence of fly-tipping had to be gathered by the council itself using its own CCTV cameras before it could be passed on to the police.

"Cameras need to go up as a minimum," Milson said.

A spokesperson for Broxbourne Borough Council said it investigates "every fly-tipping incident and during 2025/26, 97 fixed penalty notices were issued, and eight prosecutions are currently being processed".

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