More than 250 items, including 136 bags of household rubbish, electrical goods and carpets, were dumped beside the Euro bins at Convent Court last month.
- 2 TVs
- 2 microwaves
- 5 heaters
- 3 Christmas trees
- 5 computer screens
- A desk
- A chip fryer
- 4 chairs
- A sink
- A mattress
- A cooker
- A bookshelf
- A washer
- An office chair
- Rolls of carpet
- Loose wood
- Computer parts
- A hoover
- A hi-fi
- A high chair
The site, which contains large Euro bins for household waste and recycling, will close within weeks.
Debra d’Orleans, the director of municipal services at the parish, said that the street was the worst in town for fly-tipping.
‘We have a number of sites, but Convent Court is the worst, and that is why it is targeted for closure,’ she said. ‘But fly-tipping happens wherever there are communal bins, including near Hector’s fish and chip shop, Snow Hill, Belmont Road, and Chapel Lane.
‘We are trying to increase the rate of recycling to show that we care about the environment, but this is being thwarted by a small percentage of people abusing these sites who clearly don’t care about the environment.’
The Constable of St Helier, Simon Crowcroft, said that other sites in town may have to close because they are becoming so blighted with fly-tipping on a daily basis.
‘The parish has been gradually reducing the Euro bins where they are subjected to fly-tipping,’ he said. ‘A lot of people using these sites are not ratepayers in St Helier.
‘They come from outside the parish and dump their rubbish because it’s easier than driving to Bellozanne.
‘We have a lot of evidence of this on file.
‘At Convent Court, we regularly see rubbish strewn along the street. We have seen examples of builders stopping and emptying their trucks of debris.
‘We are currently in consultation with people who use the site.
‘Before we remove any site, we put up a sign urging people to contact the refuge department, who will visit them to discuss their refuge collection.
‘If people live in a block of flats and have no room for a bin, we will provide other options for them. There is no need to create a mini-Bellozanne.’
- In November 2014, the JEP revealed that Convent Court was one of three St Helier fly-tipping hotspots.
- At the time, Debra DOrleans, director of municipal services for the parish of St Helier, said it was dealing with new cases seven days a week and identified three notorious hotspots – Chapel Lane, Convent Court, and Belmont Road.
- It followed a man being fined £170 for dumping a sofa in Convent Court eight times what it would have cost him to have had it removed legally.
- Debra said at the time that authorities across the Island were battling to keep on top of the problem, with new cases being reported every day. She said that large household goods such as microwaves, refrigerators and sofas were just some of the items being found regularly and that there had even been a case of potentially cancer-causing asbestos illegally dumped.
- Speaking at the time, she said: We have a driver whose job it is to go around and move heavy, dumped items. It is happening every day, seven days a week. We do not want parishioners to see what we see.
- In May last year, the JEP launched an appeal encouraging Islanders to send in pictures of the worst fly-tipped and littered areas in Jersey in an effort to help clean up the Islands beautiful countryside and beaches.
- Following a rise in the number of people discarding rubbish, this newspaper encouraged people to photograph the worst examples of dumping and littering and we then sent all the images to Environmental Protection to help the department build a true picture of the extent of the problem and to be used as evidence to help prosecute anyone caught dumping rubbish.
- The campaign came as figures showed that last in 2013 there was a 35 per cent increase in waste-related incidents on unlicensed sites, with almost half of these relating to items that had been dumped in the coun tryside.
