Gordon Henderson talking about he latest on Eastchurch Gap

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00:00 It's actually, I think it's three years this year now.

00:04 We've been lobbying the Environment Agency for all that time

00:08 and it was only the latter part of last year

00:12 that we actually could say that as far as we're aware

00:16 the dumping has now stopped.

00:19 I live in Warden Road, I live in East Church

00:22 so I was witnessing the dumping, the dumper lorries

00:27 anything up to 50 a day going up through the village

00:31 and up there and causing chaos.

00:33 We're still suffering the results of it

00:36 from the shocking state of the roads

00:40 and the pavements where the lorries were abusing the road.

00:46 So the after effects are still being felt.

00:52 The after effects of the dumping, particularly from 3rd Avenue

00:58 where they were dumping general waste over there

01:02 which is still being washed up on the beach at Shell Ness and Warden

01:08 and as far away as Minster with the best will in the world.

01:14 Undertaking that is a mammoth task and I'm not clear.

01:20 Swellborough Council, I'm pretty sure, haven't got the resources

01:24 to be able to do that.

01:26 Whether the Environment Agency can do that is a matter for them.

01:30 I very much hope that someone can do something about it

01:33 but it does show the irresponsible nature of the dumping that took place.

01:38 And I would say this, that because it took so long

01:43 for the Environment Agency to take action

01:46 we are in that position now.

01:48 If they had taken action immediately, I raised this with them

01:52 almost three years ago now,

01:55 the amount of stuff that was actually tipped over the cliffs

02:01 wouldn't be as much as it is at the moment.