Fly-tipping on Woodland Road

Rubbish has been dumped on Woodland Road

More rubbish has been dumped on Woodland Road, part of the site of the former Turner Brothers Asbestos (TBA) site in the Spodden Valley, during the first week of May.

A mattress, a pram seat and bags of household items are just some of the unsightly waste left on private access road that once formed part of the huge Turner Brothers Asbestos processing complex.

This comes just a couple of weeks after a large number of tyres were dumped in the same location.

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As Woodland Road is blocked at the Rooley Moor Road and Dell Road highway points with huge concrete blocks, stone and rubble, local residents believe the waste is being thrown over the wall at the back of higher up Dell Road.

Nicola Rogers, Rochdale Borough Council’s public protection service manager, said: “The council has been made aware of fly-tipping on Woodlands Road and will take appropriate action with the site owner.”

The former TBA site, once home to the worlds' first, then largest asbestos textile factories, was sold in 2004 to a Jersey based Company. According to Land Registry files, ownership was later transferred to another offshore company, Renshaw Properties based in the British Virgin Islands (BVI), a tax haven, normally outside the jurisdiction of English courts. BVI company law currently does not require the names of directors and shareholders to be published.