1LFFLICTED BOROUGHS ommercial Motor has already exposed he extent of
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the blight which, though not iew, is getting out of control (CM 2-8 une 1988). Since then we have visited 3reenwich, just one of several afflicted mroughs, to see the problem for )urselves and to meet the men whose job t is to stamp it out.
Bill Childs and Bill Tombs of the coun il's works department took us on a tour the borough trouble spots — the avourite dumps for the flytippers. We 'ere shown: • Southlands Road: wasteland near a :emetery turned into an illegal dump.
• Tharnesmede Eastern Way: hundreds 4 metres of rubble dropped on the verges a busy dual carriageway.
• Horn Lane: an industrial road buried mder stinking waste. • Rochester Close: the flytippers' avourite. Up to 12 loads dumped in one ght. Ironically, in Roads and Traffic 11.. 9i11 Tombs (left) and Bill Childs, trying to let on tap of Greenwich's ever-increasing Iytipping problem.