A LANDOWNER has hit out at vandals who have turned his site into a fly-tipping hotspot.

Marcus Bou, from Bubble Holdings, said he was “sick and tired” of people breaking into his company’s land off Albert Street.

A huge clean-up was launched at the weekend after rotting piles of rubbish were discovered dumped.

Mr Bou said fences had been vandalised and locks smashed.

Dozens of bin bags full of waste, old mattresses and household rubbish were dumped in a 20-metre stretch outside Astley House.

And he said that after spending £1,400 to repair damage to the fence and have the waste taken away he was “almost certain” that the fly-tippers would return.

He said: “We have always had problems with people littering and dumping rubbish on the land but nothing like what happened before the weekend.

“The council has started a campaign to prosecute people who leave rubbish in their yards and I think people are just using our site as a tip.

“We have repaired the damage to the fencing around the land but I am almost certain that it will happen again.”

He said he used the land for supporters’ parking on match days for nearby Turf Moor but with so much fly-tipping it had recently been out of action.

Coun Gary Frayling, who represents Bank Hall ward, said: “I am glad the waste has been cleared up. Having been down there it does seem that the majority of the waste there was residential.

“We need to educate people about the proper way of dealing with this kind of problem.”

Just last week, residents lost a fight to prevent Bubble Travel from keeping a mini-bus depot, opened without planning permission, at Astley House.

Councillors gave the firm an 18-month stay of execution until they hopefully sealed a deal with the town hall to move to the Heasandford Industrial Estate.