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Riddle deepens over rubbish dumped between traveller site and recycling centre

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03.03.2026

South Norfolk Council (SNC) announced its officers were looking into who had been ditching the waste, dumped on land between a recycling centre and traveller site, last summer.

Satellite images show the vast quantities of of rubbish on the field, next to the Norwich South recycling centre and Brooks Green traveller site, appeared after June 2023.

An aerial photograph of the site taken in August 2025 (Image: Mike Page)

Pallets, mounds of wood chips, electrical appliances, building materials and metal sheets have all been left there.

But so far the council has not received any evidence from the landowner, Barry Brooks, to identify who is responsible.

People living in Brooks Green, a plot of about eight pitches managed by Broadland Housing, said they did not know who was responsible, either.

Mr Brooks donated the land to create the traveller site next door in 2009 and it was named after him.

Rubbish dumped on the field between the Norwich South recycling centre and Brooks Green in Harford (Image: Supplied)

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........

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