![CLA rural adviser Jane Harrison said: "It [fly-tipping] blights rural communities, with many incidents going unrecorded on a mass scale. Offences on private land in particular are often not reported as many farmers have little faith in the ability of the police or council to deal with fly-tipped waste 鈥� which landowners then have to remove at their own cost."](https://image.chitra.live/api/v1/wps/460a429/067fa391-02ce-4102-bf2f-bbe362e79f1f/6/030223p6FlyTipping-679x419.jpg "CLA rural adviser Jane Harrison said: \"It [fly-tipping] blights rural communities, with many incidents going unrecorded on a mass scale. Offences on private land in particular are often not reported as many farmers have little faith in the ability of the police or council to deal with fly-tipped waste 鈥� which landowners then have to remove at their own cost.\"")
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CLA rural adviser Jane Harrison said: "It [fly-tipping] blights rural communities, with many incidents going unrecorded on a mass scale. Offences on private land in particular are often not reported as many farmers have little faith in the ability of the police or council to deal with fly-tipped waste 鈥� which landowners then have to remove at their own cost."
Rural businesses need greater protections to deal with the consequences of waste crime, according to politicians and farmers. Fly-tipping Labour MP for Lichfield Dave Robertson raised the issue during...
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