Once again this website regrets to report that a private contractor has apparently gained access to the site to tip their waste.
PPAA know the identities of certain contractors who have done this before, or are believed to possess keys, and these would have been reported to the police as suspects.
Unfortunately the matter is complicated, by the fact that PPAA received an email from a plot holder seeking consent for the waste from a job in their garden to be deposited, and before a response could be given this waste was dumped. So it is not known whether this is a repeat offence by a previous, known contractor or a new one. That email has unfortunately gone astray, and so PPAA would be very grateful if that plot holder could contact them again, so that they can establish what happened in this instance.
To be clear:-
Only the Council – who always bring good material – are authorised to deposit tree waste in the common areas, and so anyone else seen doing this is committing an offence. Please can everyone be very vigilant for this, and never admit to site any contractor who is waiting and claiming to have consent. Such consent will never be given by PPAA. (If it ever were then a Committee member would meet them.)
If a plot holder mistakenly thought that such a delivery were in order, and entrusted the contractor with a key, then there is a real possibility that the key would be copied, and used to enable the trader to dispose of their waste for free on PPA site thereafter, when they would otherwise have to pay. This happened previously for a long time, resulted in the car park being near-filled with such waste, and it cost PPAA about £8,000 – along with some other work – to get rid of it. It was also quite difficult to get the offences stopped, with dumping happening after dark and so on.
So as said, PPAA would be very grateful for any information that anyone might be able to give, as to what happened this time. (The material has now been sorted at considerable expense of time and effort by unpaid volunteers.)
PPA Website Team
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