Shaw road hit by fly-tippers who left rubbish including oven

A series of shocking photos showing mountains of rubbish piled on Buckstones Road in Shaw are currently circulating on social media.

The images taken on Monday, June 21 and sent to the community Facebook group I Love Shaw, reveal mounds of discarded items including toys and furniture filling the road.

The largest pile of rubbish found on the road 

A Shaw resident took and shared the photos after spotting the fly-tipped rubbish during a dog walk.

A friend of the resident told the Oldham Times, that their friend behind the photos is “absolutely sick to the back of the teeth” of waste being dumped in the area.

The pair headed to the site of the dumped rubbish, which is in the grounds of a derelict house known locally as ‘the ruins’, to investigate further and try to establish “where it had come from”. It was then that they found address labels on some of the discarded boxes.

The residents believe the owners of the discarded items paid a removal company in “good faith” to dispose of their belongings legally.

“It’s just a mess, there’s mattresses, curtain rails, an oven and kitchen waste, there is absolutely all sorts. This is not just a little bit of stuff it’s piles and piles,” one of the residents said.

“There’s foxes and all sorts in the area and it’s obviously detrimental to the wildlife”, they added.

An oven was also abandoned at the site

Some of the rubbish has now been placed in Oldham council bags by the council’s street cleaning team according to one of the residents, who notified officers of the incident through the council website.

Members of the Oldham street cleaning team have started to bag up the rubbish

Oldham council leader Arooj Shah has made fighting fly-tipping in Oldham a top priority.

It comes after The Oldham Times launched a campaign in January to stamp out fly-tipping across the borough.

In a recent statement, Cllr Shah said: “Everyone in Oldham should feel good about where they live but when people drop litter or, even worse, discard things like old sofas, it leaves our streets looking unloved.

“While our street cleaning team do a great job, and we prosecute fly-tippers whenever possible, it sometimes seems like they’re swimming against the tide.

“Ultimately, we need to see behaviour change from those who show disregard for our borough, and cleaning up will be a real community effort.”

There are £400 on-the-spot fines for anyone caught fly-tipping, the maximum fixed penalty notice allowed in law.

Residents can report incidences of fly-tipping on the Oldham Council website at: www.oldham.gov.uk/flytipping.