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BBC News
12-08-2025
- BBC News
Slough Council warning after repeated fly-tipping at charity bins
A council has warned that leaving anything outside a bin – including charity clothing banks – is fly-tipping and anyone caught will be fined up to £1, Borough Council said it handed out 29 fly-tipping fixed penalty notices (FPNs) to offenders after installing cameras at Everetts Corner in are initially £1,000, but drop to £500 if paid within 10 seven people who gave their belongings to fly-tippers who went on to dump them were given duty of care FPNs, which are £600 fines and are cut to £400 if paid within 10 days. "Fortunately for the charity, but unfortunately for residents, the bins get full quite quickly," Greg Edmond, the council's environmental crime team leader, said. "And residents, wanting to do the right thing, are leaving bags beside the clothing banks."This is fly-tipping, whatever good intentions there may have been, and it is clear that even one bit of fly-tipping encourages others with less good intentions to fly-tip. "One bag of clothes becomes two, then that attracts more dumping of things like mattresses, broken furniture or worse."If the clothing bank is full, please take your clothing donations home, take them to the tip or even a different clothing bank. "You may not think you are fly-tipping, but you are and if we catch you, you will be fined." You can follow BBC Berkshire on Facebook, X (Twitter), or Instagram.
BBC News
28-05-2025
- General
- BBC News
Squatters still breaking into Slough council block
Squatters have still been able to break into a block of flats housing vulnerable young people after a council promised "urgent action", according to residents. Slough Borough Council pledged to secure entrances to Pendeen Court, in Cippenham, after reports of intruders sleeping in the entrances and laundry months later tenants have shown the Local Democracy Reporting Service (LDRS) several entrances were left unlocked, with dangerous rubbish left on the floor.A council spokesperson said they were aware of the issues and had been "working extensively to improve conditions for the residents". Pendeen Court is used as temporary accommodation for people who come to the council at risk of homelessness, many of who are young, single authority promised action in February after tenants revealed pictures of rough sleepers. When LDRS visited the building in May, residents showed how people could walk into the court through an unlocked bin store and how the front security door could be easily forced reported mattresses being left lying by a children's playpark in the courtyard and in tenant said: "All the doors are unlocked. There's the junkies that come in."There's glass in the park that people have to pick up and there are always cigarette butts lying around." Another resident said many living in the court "don't even want to come out of their flat".She added: "They're too worried to come out - there could be anything."A spokesperson for Slough Borough Council said bin stores were fitted with a combination padlock after the council promised action in said the padlock was found to be "no longer fastening securely" during an inspection on 20 May. 'Improve conditions for residents' The spokesperson added it had been fixed and the main door was due to be inspected on 22 May, the same day LDRS visited the court and contacted the council."We are aware of the issues being reported by residents here and we remain committed to making Pendeen Court a comfortable and safe place to live," they said."We have been working extensively to improve conditions for the residents here and will continue to do so and they know our team by name and can raise issues directly." You can follow BBC Berkshire on Facebook, X (Twitter), or Instagram.
