Westminster Hall

15 juillet 2026

Debate opens with the Fleetwood landfill as a test case for systemic weaknesses in waste regulation, then broadens to constituency landfill impacts, local enforcement gaps, backbench cases of waste site failures, and concludes with an opposition critique and ministerial response on national waste crime policy and Environment Agency powers and resourcing.

Westminster Hall

15:24 - 15:25

Order, order.

15:25 - 15:29

Intervenant 1

Lorraine Beavers to move the motion.

15:29 - 17:02

Intervenant 2

Thank you, Mr. Morrison. It is a pleasure to serve with you in the chair today. And I beg to move that this House considers the matter of the impact of waste management sites in local communities. For nearly three years, the people of Fleetwood have been forced to live with an intolerable smell from the Jameson Road landfill site. They have complained, protested, and reported the effects on their health to the council, the Environment Agency, the government, and to me as their Member of Parliament.

Over the past two and a half years, the Environment Agency has taken increasingly severe action against the operators of the site, each time after the operator has breached their permit and acted unlawfully in the process. And still the smell remains, and at times recently it has been worse than ever. In March of this year alone, more than 4,000 complaints was made. The central point I wish to make today is that this is proof of a broken regulatory system. That residents can make thousands of complaints, that people and businesses can be forced to leave an area, all because of an operator acting unlawfully, and residents are still being left breathing the same foul air.

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