FIFTEEN surveillance cameras are being installed across Bromsgrove in a fightback against an ‘epidemic’ of criminal fly-tipping.

It’s part of a community action project calling on residents to help in the battle against the growing problem of people driving into the countryside and dumping waste.

Most common is building waste, household waste, and even left-overs from cannabis growing, says local councillor Adam Kent.

Councillor Kent, who represents Wythall on Worcestershire County Council, said the plan was to mount remote surveillance cameras on private land to cover fly-tipping hotspots.

So far the campaign has enough donations from private companies to pay for 15 cameras due to be sited in Wythall, Beoley and Alvechurch.

But he is appealing for more support so that the scheme can be rolled out across the district.

“We need more donations and volunteers to both fund and assist in the erection and maintenance of the cameras.

“My own experience with a surveillance camera catching a cannabis fly tipper in the act has triggered this project.

“Hagley and Clent Hills is a key problem area as well and Councillor Karen May has asked if we can expand in to this area, so we would invite donors and volunteers to apply.

“We intend to work closely with Bromsgrove District Council as a community group to help catch these individuals and ensure our countryside isn’t used as a commercial waste site”

Initial donors include Oakland International at Redditch and Councillor Kent’s own company, Install Automation Ltd.

The web site can be accessed at www.flytips.co.uk