ANGRY allotment holders from Worcester are asking for new CCTV cameras so "brazen" fly-tippers can be prosecuted.

Dan Robb wants Worcester City Council to install a camera opposite the entrance to the allotments in Droitwich Road, Worcester and two more cameras inside the site.

Mr Robb said one of the fly-tippers was so brazen he even waved at allotment holders when he drove off after dumping his rubbish.

The city council is still looking at affordable options for CCTV on site but Mr Robb hopes something can be done sooner rather than later.

As previously reported there were 501 reported cases of fly-tipping in Worcester between April 2014 and April of this year, up from 353 the year before which was itself a rise from 288 incidents the year before that in what is becoming a growing problem nationally.

Mr Robb, who is the site representative for the allotments, said the existing three cameras which cost £1,200 do not work well enough to secure prosecutions.

He wants to see upgraded cameras which will record the number plates of vehicles entering the site which he believes will lead to more convictions, thereby acting as a deterrent to offenders.

The original cameras, which he said had been in place since 2012, were paid for by three councillors who donated £1,000 between them.

A grant of £200 grant also came from West Mercia Police.

Because these old cameras have not proved effective Mr Robb has been pressing Worcester City

for up-to-date cameras to protect the 106 plots.

He says there have been 20 to 30 incidents of fly-tipping on the site in the last few years, mainly in an area used for burning rubbish.

Rubbish dumped includes stones, dirt, tree and hedge cuttings and even tree trunks. Worcester Wyevale Garden Centre has already agreed to have a camera on their land, monitoring the allotment entrance opposite.

He said: “The cameras will save taxpayers money in the end. The council need to get their act together and get the camera up."

Mr Robb said allotment holders had already saved the council tens of thousands of pounds by running the allotments themselves and completing paperwork, vetting new plot holders and organising, where necessary, evictions.

He said: "Over the years the work has been done more and more by the site representatives. We literally run it.”

The plan is now that allotment holders should recycle their own rubbish or take it to the tip in Bilford Road.

He said: “Some of the fly-tippers are absolutely brazen. One of them waved to someone (one of the allotment holders).

"Nobody has been prosecuted. We want to see prosecutions. We want it to be a deterrent. The pictures have to be good quality, showing the vehicle number plates. We just need the evidence."

A spokesperson for Worcester City Council said: “We have full sympathy for allotment holders at the Droitwich Road site, and would like to thank Dan Robb for all his support to help reduce crime there.

"We are in the process of finding an affordable CCTV option which we can install in due course."