00:00Across Liverpool, complaints about dumped rubbish have surged, but the number of people actually fined remains low.
00:07Between May 2023 and 2024, Liverpool Council logged more than 4,000 street cleaning requests and around 17,000 enquiries linked to fly tipping.
00:18To tackle the issue, the Council launched a new environmental crime enforcement team equipped with geofencing technology and a tiered penalty system.
00:26Yet a written report confirmed that since its creation, the team has issued just 19 penalty charge notices for fly tipping.
00:34Of those 19 fines, 11 have been paid, bringing in a total of £5,350.
00:41Six cases remain outstanding and two have been passed for prosecution.
00:45The figures were released in response to a question at last month's full council meeting from Councillor Joe Dunn, who asked how enforcement was progressing.
00:54The data shows the highest number of fly tipping reports, more than 1,000, came from Kensington and Fairfield.
01:02Seven of the city's 10 most affected areas actually saw reports fall.
01:06In Anfield, incidents dropped by 17% from 700 to 582, but in the city centre, cases rose by nearly 10% to 578.
01:16The Council also confirmed it will not set enforcement targets for its external contractor, waste investigation support and enforcement known as WISE,
01:26which now operates citywide, tackling litter, fly tipping and dog fouling.
01:31Cabinet Member for Communities and Neighbourhoods Councillor Laura Robertson Collins said enforcement isn't about catching out people who make honest mistakes,
01:40but about penalising those who deliberately mess up Liverpool streets.
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