It is hoped that CCTV coverage could help end a wave of fly tipping and littering at an abandoned slaughterhouse in Devizes.

Mounds of rubbish scatter the land, on the corner of Windsor Drive and Coate Road.

Earlier this year, we reported on drug needles and abandoned sofas leading to a police investigation.

Now, a fridge freezer filled with rotten food has been dumped outside the slaughterhouse alongside pieces of wooden furniture.

An older man with a “new car” was spotted dumping the freezer, but this has not been confirmed by the police.

Noël Woolrych runs Devizes’s CCTV network and also walks his dog near to the abandoned slaughterhouse.

He tried to report the waste to Wiltshire Council but, due to the land being private rather than public, there is little they can do.

 

Coate Road

Coate Road

 

Cllr Dr Mark McClelland, Wiltshire Council’s cabinet member for street scene told the Gazette: “We are aware of the fly tipping that has occurred on this private land. We have written to the landowner and requested that they remove and lawfully dispose of the waste on their land and take measures to prevent further tipping from taking place. If anyone has any information regarding the fly tipping of waste at this location, please report via My Wilts app and we will investigate.”

Mr Woolrych has now suggested that the landowner meets with him and council representatives to discuss the possibility for CCTV.

“There’s a very suitable lamppost just across on the public highway,” he said.

“I could put a camera up there, and I’ve been speaking to Elite Beds about it, but it would need permission from the landowner and the council.

“But I think this could cure the problem. The fridge freezer there at the moment is just disgusting.

“Unless we get some joined up thinking, this situation is just going to keep getting worse. It could attract rats and really get out of hand. If people know they are being watched, they’ll be a lot less likely to fly tip.”