Peterborough: Boxes of rotten meat fly-tipped at city bus stop

Peterborough City Council team has cleared the fly-tipped meat boxes and appealed for residents to report cases

Boxes of "rotten meat" are being regularly fly-tipped in a city, causing a "horrendous smell", residents claim.

In the latest incident, three boxes of meat, labelled as poultry, were left at a bus stop in Brynmore, in the north Bretton area of Peterborough.

Peterborough City Council, who removed the boxes, has advised people to report any further incidents.

Resident Collette Francis, member of Bretton Parish Council, described the fly-tipping as "disgusting".

"We have food waste bins, so there's absolutely no need for this," she said.

People have told the BBC the fly-tipping had become a regular occurrence and was "probably the fifth time we have found these boxes".

This box of rubbish was reported earlier in the year to Peterborough City council

Richard Stangward, Labour councillor for Bretton, also said he has reported the rubbish before to the local authority.

"This has happened a few times now and is almost always at the same stop, which I find intriguing," he said.

"The quantity and the packaging of the boxes convinces me that this has a commercial use rather from a household.

"It stinks awfully, especially during summer, so you can imagine the anger among residents over these incidents."

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