Overview
- Mid-June reporting identified Trevoole Moor, near Camborne, as the site shown in fresh photos and local accounts that reveal large-scale industrial and household waste across the land.
- The Environment Agency has issued Illegal Waste Stop Letters to the landowner, hauliers and operator and says its investigation is nearing completion with strong action to follow.
- Residents say roughly 15 of the 25-acre reserve have been repeatedly dumped on over about 20 years, leaving piles of toilets, pipes, concrete, tyres and burnt furniture and destroying habitat next to Pendarves Woods and a public footpath.
- Local MP Andrew George said he will raise the case with the Environment Agency and ministers and called for tougher enforcement, while Cornwall Council says it is not involved in the probe.
- The site was first flagged by a House of Lords committee last October and now highlights wider national problems with organised fly-tipping, enforcement limits and the practical hurdles to removing waste and securing prosecutions.