Paul Babra says fly-tipping is getting worse in Kemsing Gardens, Hales Places, Canterbury
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00:00Paul's lived in this housing estate in Canterbury for some 30 years, his property coming with
00:06one of these garages. But he says fly-tipping is getting worse and worse in Kemsing Gardens.
00:11This is just becoming a junk yard or a tipping yard, you know. It is very, very disappointing.
00:18He's so fed up he wants to leave Hale's place, but says waste is stopping him from doing
00:23that.
00:24A few years back, we had the valuation done by our property, by a local estate agent,
00:30and we were getting a good fair amount. We got it recently valued by another reputable
00:36local estate agent, and the value has gone down very, very much. And they clearly identified
00:41that because of the state of the neighbourhood, Kemsing Gardens, Canterbury, is the big issue.
00:51He came here around a month ago, and this is what it looked like then. Today, more rubbish,
00:56little cleared. Part of the issue is that these garages are privately owned, with the
01:02council saying fly-tippers are taking advantage of this derelict land.
01:06It's just, it has been a really, really massive headache, the whole thing. And as I've said
01:14again before, there's just so much complexity to it to get to find a solution. But we are
01:18working our way through it, and that's all I can say really.
01:22Personally, I brought this issue back to the local authorities, and they very clearly came
01:27and put the CCTV cameras here, but unfortunately those cameras, they did not work, and they
01:35have been removed now for some time.
01:37Canterbury City Council told us they sympathise with the plight of people living in Kemsing
01:41Gardens, and have been working hard to find a solution, but preparations are underway
01:46to clear the land. They'd say it's expensive, but if they catch any future fly-tippers they'll
01:51be hit with the biggest possible punishment. With the amount of fly-tipping increasing
01:55and little being removed, and he says if he had the money, he'd clear it himself, or take
02:01legal action.
02:02Gabriel Morris, in Canterbury.