Fines totalling more than £3,000 were issued to fly-tippers across Fenland in March. 

Three residents who failed to dispose of their household waste legally were each issued with £400 fixed penalty notices.

Two men were taken to court after failing to pay fixed penalty notices for fly-tipping, which resulting in them being ordered to pay larger sums.

One of them was ordered to pay more than £1,000.

Meanwhile, a rogue trader who was suspected of tipping trade waste also got a £300 fixed penalty notice.

Cllr Peter Murphy, Fenland District Council portfolio holder for refuse and cleansing, parks and open spaces, said: “We will not tolerate fly-tipping in the district. If you do it expect to be found and fined.

“The district council provides excellent services for waste disposal. There is no excuse for dumping illegally.”

Three women each paid £400 fixed penalty notices for failing to dispose of their household waste legally.

All three were repeatedly told to use allocated bins and not leave their household waste on a street in Wisbech.

Despite the residents being told the correct way to get rid of unwanted items, waste found belonging to them was dumped in an alleyway causing distress to residents.

Allocated bins the waste was left next to remained unused.

Meanwhile, a Spalding man was ordered to pay a £300 fixed penalty notice for failing to provide evidence to enforcement officers that he disposed of his trade waste legally.

The man was suspected of involvement in a fly-tip in Treading Bank, Wisbech, which blocked a rural road in January last year (2023).

Persistent officers eventually tracked down the rogue trader and asked to see an audit trail of his paperwork for the last six months.

He was unable to provide records showing he had taken waste he was collecting as part of his business to an official waste site and was issued a fixed penalty notice.

A man who was spotted piling rubbish from a house into West Street Car Park, Wisbech, had to pay a total of £530.

The man had been issued with a £400 fixed penalty notice but failed to pay and was summoned to court. When he failed to appear, a warrant was issued for his arrest.

On March 19 this year, the man appeared in court and was ordered to pay a total of £530.

Another man involved in the same incident, which happened in May last year, was dealt with in court in August and ordered to pay a total of £1,010.