A guide to council services over the Christmas and New Year period when the council offices are closed to the public.
Fly-tipping
July 16, 2025
Rubbish judgment sees resident fined for A34 fly-tip
Vale of White Horse District Council has successfully prosecuted a Didcot resident after their waste was found fly-tipped in a layby on the A34 southbound, near Kennington—an area of persistent public concern around litter and illegal dumping.
July 3, 2025
Two fined for dumping rubbish in rural Oxfordshire
Two residents have been brought to book after admitting responsibility for separate fly-tipping incidents in the Vale of White Horse. Failure to pay fine costs Fyfield fly-tipper Lorna Swift, 40, of Summers Close, Kingston Bagpuize, attended Oxford Magistrates’ Court on Friday 13 June, when she pleaded guilty to unlawfully depositing black bags full of rubbish […]
March 18, 2025
Tougher fines to tackle fly-tipping and protect our environment
South Oxfordshire and Vale of White Horse District Councils are stepping up efforts to combat environmental crimes with stricter penalties for fly-tipping, littering and for householders who fail to ensure that their waste will be disposed of legally. From 1 April 2025, those who fail to meet their legal responsibilities for waste disposal will face […]
November 7, 2024
Double fly-tipper ordered to do 60 hours unpaid work
A Swindon resident has been sentenced to 60 hours of unpaid work after admitting illegally disposing of furniture and other waste at two locations near Wantage. Wellington Panigos, 47, Millgrove Street, Swindon, appeared at Oxford Magistrates’ Court on Friday 1 November where he pleaded guilty to two counts of fly-tipping. The incidents were reported to […]
November 1, 2022
Man ordered to pay more than £2,200 for fly tipping
A man was ordered to pay more than £2,200 after being caught on camera fly tipping on land at Watchfield. Following a successful prosecution by Vale of White Horse District Council, Paul Hiles, aged 29, from Quarry Crescent, Highworth, pleaded guilty at Oxford Magistrates Court on 21 October to one charge of unlawfully depositing controlled […]
October 3, 2022
Three men ordered to pay more than £4,600 after waste was fly tipped in Goosey
Vale of White Horse District Council has successfully prosecuted three men from Oxfordshire and Northamptonshire after rubbish was fly tipped into a brook running through the village of Goosey.
August 25, 2022
Man fined after failing to check who took his waste
A man has been fined more than £500 after paying someone to remove his waste that ended up being fly-tipped. Scott Davies, 42 of Bridge End Road, Swindon, failed to check if the man with a cage vehicle who said he could remove Mr Davies waste had a waste carriers’ licence. Paying £50 for the […]
May 3, 2022
Man ordered to pay more than £2,700 after a fly tip in Shrivenham
A man from Shrivenham was ordered to pay more than £2,700 when a large amount of household waste was fly tipped by a roadside.
February 2, 2022
Oxford man guilty of two counts of flytipping in the Vale
A 35-year-old man from Oxford has pleaded guilty to two charges of flytipping following a successful prosecution by Vale of White Horse District Council. Bryan Penn-Lloyd from Stowood Close, Headington appeared at Oxford Magistrates’ Court on Friday (28 January). He pleaded guilty to two charges under Section 33(1) of the Environmental Protection Act (flytipping) in […]
June 25, 2021
Man prosecuted after furniture was set alight at The Ridgeway
Following a successful prosecution by Vale of White Horse District Council, a 27-year-old lorry driver from Gloucestershire has been ordered to pay more than £1,400 after furniture and household rubbish was set alight on land near The Ridgeway. Daniel Murphy, of Kingsmeadow, Bourton on the Water, appeared at Oxford Magistrates’ Court on Friday (18 June). […]
