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Manchester Evening News
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David King

'We've got to live in this carnage': The dumping ground where fly-tipping is out of control

A buckled child's bicycle, a dirty old mattress and piles of mouldy food packaging.

This bit of land - teeming with rats - behind people's homes in Oldham is an absolute disgrace.

"We've got to live in this carnage," one resident says.

Fly-tipping is 'out of control' at the site, off Fulham Street, between the town centre and Lees.

The smell is horrendous.

People whose houses back onto the land say human waste has been found there.

They've had enough of the horrific mess just yards from their back doors.

Household waste - including food and nappies - is regularly chucked onto the pile. Rolls of old carpet and bricks also litter the site.

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Alex Naum, 54, said it has become a 'dumping ground'.

"No matter how many times it gets cleaned up, the mess reappears. They come and clean up and within a day it’s back.

"The value of my property has certainly gone down now. Who’s going to want to buy this?"

It's an absolute mess (UGC)

Alex said it's been an issue for around two years, with rubbish piling up for months between clean-ups.

It's private land, so the council is limited in what it can do.

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Ash Mazir, 45, said these unbelievable images actually show the land in a decent state, compared to nomral.

"I’ve got no words. Unfortunately, we’ve got to live in this carnage," he said.

"You see kids playing in this and smashing bottles and the rest of it. This isn’t Britain."

Mum Aimie Fallon, 29, said: "It’s absolutely disgraceful. The council needs to buy it off the land owner and they need to make use of the land."

The town halls says that the owner of the land is responsible for clearing the grotspot.

Enforcement action has been taken.

"We served notice on the landowner to clear the waste and they were fined when they did not comply," a spokesman said.

"The owner must now clear the land. If they do not then we will serve a non-compliance notice on them, clear the land and charge them for the work.”

Residents have been slapped with fines for fly-tipping in recent months, the council said.

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