Council's fly-tipping warning after repeated dumps

The council installed cameras in an attempt to stop fly-tipping at the hotspot in Cippenham

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 £1,000.

Slough Borough Council said it handed out 29 fly-tipping fixed penalty notices (FPNs) to offenders after installing cameras at Everetts Corner in Cippenham.

They are initially £1,000, but drop to £500 if paid within 10 days.

Another 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."