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Canterbury resident furious as estate becomes hotspot for illegal waste
KentOnline / KMTV
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04/09/2024
Flytipping on a housing estate in Canterbury is becoming so common that some areas are being treated as a junk yard.
That is according to a resident in Hales Place who says the state of nearby garages makes him want to move away.
Gabriel Morris reports.
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Paul's lived in this housing estate in Canterbury for some 30 years, his property coming with
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one of these garages. But he says fly-tipping is getting worse and worse in Kemsing Gardens.
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This is just becoming a junk yard or a tipping yard, you know. It is very, very disappointing.
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He's so fed up he wants to leave Hale's place, but says waste is stopping him from doing
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that.
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A few years back, we had the valuation done by our property, by a local estate agent,
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and we were getting a good fair amount. We got it recently valued by another reputable
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local estate agent, and the value has gone down very, very much. And they clearly identified
00:41
that because of the state of the neighbourhood, Kemsing Gardens, Canterbury, is the big issue.
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He came here around a month ago, and this is what it looked like then. Today, more rubbish,
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little cleared. Part of the issue is that these garages are privately owned, with the
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council saying fly-tippers are taking advantage of this derelict land.
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It's just, it has been a really, really massive headache, the whole thing. And as I've said
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again before, there's just so much complexity to it to get to find a solution. But we are
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working our way through it, and that's all I can say really.
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Personally, I brought this issue back to the local authorities, and they very clearly came
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and put the CCTV cameras here, but unfortunately those cameras, they did not work, and they
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have been removed now for some time.
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Canterbury City Council told us they sympathise with the plight of people living in Kemsing
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Gardens, and have been working hard to find a solution, but preparations are underway
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to clear the land. They'd say it's expensive, but if they catch any future fly-tippers they'll
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be hit with the biggest possible punishment. With the amount of fly-tipping increasing
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and little being removed, and he says if he had the money, he'd clear it himself, or take
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legal action.
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Gabriel Morris, in Canterbury.
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