A GREEN champion has used scores of digital photographs to launch a scathing attack on Oldham Council’s “failure” to deal with number grot spots around the town.

Lynda Naylor has sent tranche of images to the chief executive of Oldham Council and is claiming not enough is being done by the local authority to find perpetrators of fly tipping and clean up the mess.

Mrs Naylor, aged 62, who lives close to two boarded-up houses in Greenacres, has been a longstanding campaigner against the blight of fly-tipping and litter and several years ago was crowned Clean and Green Champion.

She says that she has been “consistently ignored” by the powers-that-be even though she has provided photographic evidence of she says is a major problem in the town.

“In my view, it is totally unacceptable,” she said. “But week after week, month after month, year after year, there are areas of Oldham which look awful. No-one seems to care.”

Mattresses, settees, other bits of furniture, bags of rubbish, piles of rubble and derelict buildings left empty for years are at the heart of Mrs Naylor’s grievances.

She says the grot areas in in areas including Greenacres, Clarksfield, Lees, Shaw, Derker, Westood, and Werneth.

Meanwhile, Mrs Naylor took part in the Greenacres Community Clean Up recently and she appealed other residents to take part in efforts to purge the streets of the town of the mess.

“I urge anyone who has an ounce of pride in their town to help us clean the area up, and to help encourage others not to deposit this mess in the first place.

“It’s depressing and dragging Oldham and its reputation down into the gutter.”

Helen Lockwood, deputy chief executive for people and place, told The Oldham Times: “We encourage all residents to do your bit by reporting flytipping and we have a zero tolerance policy on this crime, which blights local areas.

“We’ve highlighted to Mrs Naylor that we have a clear procedure in place to enable our teams to deal with such reports. We ask everyone to follow it because photographs without information about the site makes our task more difficult and is wasteful of enforcement officers’ time.

“This year we’ve employed extra enforcement officers who have delivered hundreds of prosecutions and fixed penalty notices as a deterrent. We’ve invested an extra £600,000 a year in our street cleaning and are working with some brilliant community groups to tackle this problem.

“If you spot flytipping, the best way to tell us is by going to our website at https://www.oldham.gov.uk/flytipping so we can process your information quickly and effectively. You will then be updated via email on the progress of our enquiries."