My local example has now resulted in a District Council Planning Enforcement notice and a demand to restore the land within 2 months. I'm not holding my breath that anything actually happens.
Industrial quantities of domestic waste buried and covered in a trench of a field that had planning permission for landscaping, completed by the previous owner.
https://www.broxbourne.gov.uk/downloads/file/4936/enf-26-0012
@celeduc Indeed. Cadent were the only agency to pay real attention to what was going on. The council had to come up with demands that dealt with Cadent's concerns.
There's an added twist, 6 months before the waste burial started, they had been dumping all kinds of waste in one corner of the field, right above the pipeline. It caught fire and resulted in a 4 fire engine incident in the middle of the night that I saw from 8 miles away.
Reported as soon as we became aware of it. To County and District councils, All the councillors (Tories), Cadent (it was over a gas line), Environment Agency. Cadent jumped. Councils delayed - arguing responsibility, EA turned up after the work was finished and we've heard no more from them.
I should have phoned 999. And that's the lesson. First stop is the Police, especially if work is in progress.
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