Lichfield MP Dave Robertson says custodial sentences should be considered for fly-tippers who blocked road access in his consistency by dumping a 15-foot high mound of waste.
Robertson called the amount of waste “staggering” and said it “posed a genuine risk to life” as public services were blocked from acccessing a housing development.
Lichfield District Council is appealing for witnesses following the fly-tipping incident, which blocked access to Watery Lane for vehicles.
Robertson said that 20 businesses were also forced to close for two days because of the fly-tipping incident.
Speaking in Parliament, the MP for Lichfield said: “This was not a few tyres out the back of a Transit van but an industrial scale, enormous fly-tip, which meant that the lane was completely unpassable from the north.”
The Council is appealing to any motorists who were driving along Wood End Lane at around 11pm on Sunday night (19 January) or 12.45am on Monday morning to check their dashcam footage.
At both those times, officers want to identify an HGV tipper truck that reversed off Wood End Lane and down Watery Lane before dumping the waste and then driving back onto Wood End Lane.
Cabinet Member, Councillor Alex Farrell, said: “We’ve had a team of environmental health officers searching the waste and going door-to-door to obtain CCTV footage and now have a number of leads to go on.
“We’re asking drivers who were in the area at the times the waste was dumped to please check their dashcam footage for the type of vehicle we believe was used in the crime and share anything they have with our officers.”
