Essex MP Bernard Jenkin is today set to stand in Parliament and call for an end to people suffering from hazardous fly-tipping having to foot the bill to clear it up.
The MP for North Essex is taking proposed amendments to the environmental protection act as a ten-minute rule bill, following a series of asbestos dumping incidents in Essex.
He is backed by the Country Land and Business Association (CLA) after committee member David Gibbon had to pay £3,000 to clear asbestos, dumped in specialist sacks on land at South Fambridge, on the River Crouch.
If he had failed to clear it he could have been prosecuted for "knowingly keeping hazardous waste without a licence".
In recent years, Colchester Council has had to pay hundreds of pounds to clear asbestos from sites in Great Tey, while last month Tendring Council was forced to spend £7,000 clearing up three separate incidents in Little Bromley, Little Bentley and Ardleigh.
Jane Burch, CLA regional adviser, said: "Regrettably, this ten minute rule bill is unlikely to result in a law change at this stage, but it has gained so much support that we believe it will be taken and the law changed in due course."
- More in today's Gazette
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