{"id":22924,"date":"2019-02-19T17:04:42","date_gmt":"2019-02-19T17:04:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/?p=22924"},"modified":"2019-02-19T17:06:53","modified_gmt":"2019-02-19T17:06:53","slug":"ukip-brands-welsh-government-fly-tipping-measure-confused","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/ukip-brands-welsh-government-fly-tipping-measure-confused\/","title":{"rendered":"UKIP brands Welsh Government fly-tipping measure &#8220;confused&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"story-body__introduction\"><strong>People in Wales involved in fly-tipping could face a fixed penalty notice of \u00a3300.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Assembly Members are voting on the new rules which would make it easier for councils to issue the notices.<\/p>\n<p>Councils are already allowed to issue penalty notices against individuals who fly tip themselves, but this measure would introduce a charge against individuals who let others fly tip on their behalf. This applies to people like family members and rogue builders.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Welsh Government, more than 60% of fly-tipping incidents originate from domestic properties. They also say it cost Welsh taxpayers \u00a32m to clean-up fly-tipping in 2017-18.<\/p>\n<p>The figures also show that Cardiff had the highest number of reported cases of fly-tipping last year with 5,928. Newport was second highest with 3,588 cases of fly-tipping reported.<\/p>\n<p>Gareth Bennett, UKIP Wales leader and Assembly Member for South Wales central said that his party would be voting against the motion. &#8220;Flytipping is a big problem, but I&#8217;m not sure that bringing in more regulations will do anything to solve it. Maybe they should look at not charging people for taking stuff to a tip and being recycled&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>He continued &#8220;If they want more recycling to take place, then surely they should do what they can to enable people to recycle. I think they&#8217;re confused &#8211; why put objects in front of recycling? I think it&#8217;s because councils want to raise money, but if people avoid this by fly-tipping then that isn&#8217;t a good outcome&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The bill includes a measure to reduce the notice cost to \u00a3150 if the bill is paid promptly.<\/p>\n<p>AMs will vote on the measure tonight, and it&#8217;s expected to pass with Welsh Government support<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People in Wales involved in fly-tipping could face a fixed penalty notice of \u00a3300.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":198,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[743,744],"tags":[703,1050],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22924"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/198"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22924"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22951,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22924\/revisions\/22951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}