PRAMS, builders’ waste and supermarket trolleys make up just some of the rubbish turning a Bournemouth lane into a fly-tipping blackspot.

The lane off Belle Vue Road, Southbourne, is the latest area to be blighted by the illegal dumping of household and trade rubbish.

Its problems are just one example of a fly-tipping epidemic which last year saw 1,870 incidents cost Bournemouth council £26,830 in clean-up costs.

Nearby resident Tony King said he had become used to fly-tippers at the lane, which provides access to homes around The Parade but is an adopted highway.

“There are lots of black bags. Some of them have got paint or something on the outside so it’s obvious a builder has dumped that,” he said.

“We’ve got prams, supermarket trolleys, settees. We haven’t got a kitchen sink there, but we’ve had sinks and baths in the past.”

He said the problem had become worse but had been going on for several years.

“Someone told me he saw a man pull a car up into the entrance there, get out his rubbish, get back into the car and pull away,” he said.

He would like Bournemouth council to install CCTV cameras to catch offenders in the act.

“I’ve rung them quite a few times. If there’s a lot of stuff there, the people nearby put their bins out in front of it to make sure they get it cleared,” he said.

“If they do that, then sometimes we have to move the bins back to get the car out.

“Every so often someone comes in a van and takes anything metal. If you wait long enough, the council comes and clears the bags but within a very short time, it’s back there again.”

A statement from Bournemouth Borough Council street services manager Stuart Best said: “We encourage anyone who sees fly tipping in the Bournemouth area to report this to us via our website or our phone app. This helps us to identify any sites and attend where necessary.”

The Daily Echo reported recently that Dorset’s councils received 5,930 reports of fly-tipping in 2016, blighting roadside sites, beauty spots and public land.

While Bournemouth spent £26,830 clearing up 1,870 incidents, Poole dealt with 1,385 incidents, with the cost of the clean-up unknown. Dorset Waste Partnership, which is responsible for the rest of the county, dealt with 2,417 incidents at an estimated cost of £130,813.

In the New Forest, there have been calls to scrap charges at public tips to alleviate fly-tipping.