Haringey's New Fly-Tipping Strategy. What Do You Think?

Haringey have published two different documents on the strategy. There's a Strategy Document, clearly aimed at the general public, and a more practical Action Plan, the audience for which is unclear. Both are attached below.

The action plan identifies three clusters of action:

• Early intervention
• Prevention
• Enforcement

The strategy document presents the same information in a different way and includes a section comparing teh old approach with the new on page 9.

Also included is a 'heat map' indicating where the most reports are in the borough. The text explains,  "whilst fly-tipping occurs in areas all over Haringey, the corridor down Tottenham High Road has the highest levels of fly-tipping. More fly-tips also occur in West Green and in Wood Green".

Map of Haringey showing fly-tips reported in the borough during 2017/18

In its opening pages, the strategy document sets out is key elements, as follows:

• Promoting civic pride through community champions, friends groups, resident associations, traders and schools.

• Working with local communities and partners:

  • to increase awareness of fly-tipping problems,the cost to residents and traders in collecting anddisposing of fly-tips and the negative impact that fly-tipping creates for their local area; and then

  • to identify, prioritise and then remove these fly-tipping hot spots across the borough.

• Taking an intelligence led approach to the enforcementof fly-tipping, understanding the profile of fly-tippersand utilising the most appropriate legislation to enforce against them and change behaviours.

• Explaining to the Magistrates the social andenvironmental impacts that fly-tipping causes to promote realistic sentencing

• Working with Probation to create community payback schemes on environmental improvements to increase Magistrates’ sentencing options.