MPs call for landlords to work with councils on fly-tipping

Oh so not only do they punish private landlords the government now want us to help them. Absolute joke, the councils are responsible for street care not the landlords. Landlords properties have boundary’s anything outside the boundary is nothing to do with them. Yes sure if the council find rubbish and can identify who’s rubbish it is then by all means fine the person who dumped said rubbish NOT the landlord. The Government are a joke.

So not only unpaid, and untrained/unqualified, immigration officers and ASBO officers the government wants PRS landlords to be unpaid waste disposal bin men and women.

Why not indeed. After all, we’re already responsible for doing the work of the Border Force to ensure people have a right to rent in this country, we can simply extend that to include stopping fly-tipping. Perhaps we should apply for payment for doing the work other departments / councils should be doing? Maybe set up a councilling service to help tenants who aren’t paying their rent and support them with money to take their landlord to court.
Alternatively, perhaps all these ridiculous ideas can go where they should and the people already being paid (by us taxpayers) can do the job they’re paid to do – or is that an outrageous suggestion?

“Landlords should work much more closely with local authorities to ensure that proper waste disposal arrangements are in place and to prevent alleyways and communal areas from becoming dumping grounds.”
Not interested. Tenants produce the rubbish and they are obliged to dispose of properly – is THEIR contractual obligation not the property owner.
All the property owner has to do is ensure there is the necessary bin at the start of the tenancy and provide a link to the council waste web page. The web page gives all the info the property occupier about what the council requires of THEM when putting rubbish out.
As the council tax payer the tenant) – its down to them as the occupier to abide by this.
I fully support councils in enforcing and fining those who fly tip/responsible for not disposing of THEIR waste properly, but if they think it’s the landlord who responsible, then they have another thing coming!

Are these MPs unaware of the minimum 100% Council tax that virtually all local authorities charge the landlord immediately the property becomes vacant? That is a considerable premium considering a single occupant gets a 25% discount (and can actually use the full range of council services that the LL wouldn’t be eligible for if they live out of the area).

Instead of just pocketing that CT as a windfall perhaps it might be an idea for the local authority to spend it supporting the landlord either directly or indirectly. In previous decades councils used to place skips every few weeks for local residents to use – and if the council bulky waste removal was made a bit cheaper more tenants might use it!

How can a private landlord by responsible for flytipping on your street

I have reposted flytipping to the council on our street x2 weekly for years and spoke to enforcement officers who tells me there are cameras there bullshit if there were there would be no fly tipping

All the tenants are provided with enough suitable bins and information to recycle
they are adults and responsible

This is a giant no from me I will no be held responsible for other peoples rubbish

What happens when someone from a few doors away, dumps rubbish in the backstreet outside the rear of my property and there is nothing to identify where it has come from…..because that is what will happen?

How can someone incur a fine or a penalty for an offence they did not commit, had no hand in and knew nothing about?

It sounds like another ridiculous ill conceived scheme by someone from Whitehall, still working from home and has not yet returned to the real world…..if they ever lived in it!!

Utter nonsense again.

What will they ‘dream up’ next

Reply to the comment left by Keith Wellburn at 06/07/2026 – 10:37
Why does a single householder only get a 25% CT discount, which obviously makes it cheaper if 2 or more people live in a property! It should be at least a 50% discount.
Does the government/council not realise that that thousands of property owners already pay enormous sums to remove unauthorised waste from blocks of flats.

Reply to the comment left by David at 13:03

Originally it was 50% discount for a second home and 25% for single occupancy.

The second home discount went to 10% then 0%, now most including myself pay 100% premium. CT was brought in to replace the unpopular Community Charge (poll tax) where every adult was expected to contribute and was based on two eligible occupiers.

The winners are households with multiple working adults, single occupiers get a token discount and, now, in similar vein the the assault on landlords, CT is used to teach second home owners what a bunch of utter b******* they are by our MPs who are still presumably miffed at not getting an allowance to pay the mortgage so they can own a second home like most did fifteen years ago.