A countryside landscape was left looking messy after waste was scattered on the side of a road.

The unsightly fly-tip was discovered by a field off a bridleway near Bledlow, with bags of waste, furniture and other rubbish dumped by a gate.

Buckinghamshire Council’s fly-tipping enforcement team took to social media after receiving a report of the criminal fly-tipping off the Wigans Lane and Bledlow Ridge Road on October 26.

They wrote on X (former Twitter): “The small ray of sunshine is that evidence found at scene is now under investigation.”

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The dumper and producer, if found to have failed duty of care, should expect a “zero tolerance response,” they warned.

The fly-tip was located only a couple of minutes from the Bledlow Ridge Household Recycling Centre.

The Council's 'Scrap fly tipping' campaign encourages residents to only use electronic payments to waste carriers, so that they can be traced. 

Failure of the duty of care to check that the person taking away the waste is fully authorised to do so could result as a £400 fixed penalty notice if the waste ends up illegally dumped.