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CCTV hope for street blighted by fly-tipping

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Jay Moore said he believed the recently-installed CCTV camera would stop the fly-tippers

A street which became a fly-tipping hotspot has started "turning a corner" since a CCTV camera was installed.

Crestwood Court was described by the waste collection firm Veolia as the worst in Oswestry, town councillor Jay Moore said.

He used to live on the street and said there had been a constant flow of vehicles turning up to dump rubbish there.

But he said the camera had been able to start recording their registration plates and Shropshire Council would be prosecuting the owners.

Mr Moore said the dumped waste was "quite a collection" and included what appeared to include commercial waste and large items such as beds and mattresses.

A pile of mattresses, beds and other furniture lying in the street with a wooden no parking sign in front
Mr Moore said council workers cleared the rubbish several times, but more would appear

The CCTV camera was paid for by the town council and he said it showed people turning up in vehicles and throwing things out of their boots, or out of the back of vans.

Unfortunately, he said, "once an area starts to develop a fly-tipping problem it then perpetuates that cycle".

Shropshire Council had visited on a number of occasions to clean it up, but he said "slowly but surely the pile just simply rebuilds".

He said he feared the CCTV camera may just move the problem on to another street, but he said at least Crestwood Court could become an area people are "proud to live in" again.

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