A sea of fly-tipped rubbish has been found dumped next to a traveller site just metres away from a recycling centre.
Piles of waste have been strewn across a field sitting between the Brooks Green Gypsy and Traveller site and Norwich South recycling centre outside Norwich.
The swathes of rubbish, including building material such as pallets and metal sheets, first appeared in June 2023, according to satellite imagery.
South Norfolk Council (SNC) have said they are investigating who had been ditching the waste but had so far not received any evidence on who was responsible.
People living on Brooks Green, a plot of about eight pitches managed by Broadland Housing for permanent settling, said they did not know who was responsible.
Landowner Barry Brooks donated the land to create the traveller site next door in 2009 and it was named after him.
One man, who lives at Brooks Green but did not wish to be named, said he had ‘caught a couple of people driving down and dumping there’ and said any incidents get reported to the council.
Another woman wondered if sometimes people trying to get to the Norwich South dump may end up leaving rubbish there instead.
Norfolk has been blighted by fly tipping in recent weeks with 1,200 tons of illegal waste dumped on one four-acre plot.
Landowner Peter, 40, said the situation highlighted the struggles of landowners who are ultimately legally responsible for clearing the mess.
A spokesman for SNC said: ‘If the landowner can supply evidence of who is responsible, we will investigate and we will work with landowners.
‘Unfortunately, it is the landowner’s responsibility to remove the waste unless we can find those responsible.
‘The council takes fly-tipping very seriously and would ask all landowners to report any incidents of fly-tipping to help us understand the nature of the activity.’
A spokeswoman for Broadland Housing said it is not the landowner of the site and that it did not know who has been fly-tipping on the adjacent field.
The Environment Agency has said the scale of the fly-tipping is not significant enough to warrant its officers’ involvement and that it was a district council issue.
Barry Brooks has been approached for comment.
