Fed-up Chelsfield residents are calling for a crackdown on fly-tippers dumping junk on their country lanes.

Week after week sheets of plywood, old mattresses, paper cups, plastic bags and smashed-up furniture are strewn along Skeet Hill Lane and the surrounding roads.

Motorists are often forced to reverse all the way back down the narrow lanes as they cannot drive past the mountains of waste.

Toby Sparkes, whose parents live on Skeet Hill Lane, told News Shopper the problem has spiralled out of control.

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Toby and Terry Sparkes with rubbish dumped on Skeet Hill Lane

The 37-year-old, from West Malling, said: "There is no sign of it stopping. It’s just become the norm.

"Bromley Council do a very good job of sending someone out to clear it up. I can’t fault that."

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Four months ago, 88-year-old grandmother Olive Stevens was killed by her own car in a bizarre crash after fly-tippers blocked Skeet Hill Lane with rubbish.

Mrs Stevens, the mum of well-known actor Michael Fenton Stevens, was knocked over by a man, who was helping her to reverse her car along the road.

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Olive Stevens with her son Michael Fenton Stevens

Mr Stevens, 68, said: "Normally, fly-tipping is just an inconvenience but a direct result of it was that my mother was killed."

He thinks fly-tipping would be reduced dramatically if councils did not charge for disposing commercial and trade waste.

Bromley deputy council leader and environment portfolio holder Councillor Colin Smith said: "If first time offenders had their vans or lorries seized and crushed as a default punishment and multiple offenders jailed on an increasing scale for the number of times they were caught, these problems would dramatically diminish overnight."

Anyone who reports information, which could lead to successfully proescuting an offender could receive up to £500 through the council's 'envirocrime' reward scheme.

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