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# Council confirms investigation has begun after farmer hands over dumped waste to Burntwood councillor
- URL: https://lichfieldlive.co.uk/council-confirms-investigation-has-begun-after-farmer-accuses-burntwood-councillor-of-fly-tipping/
- Published: 2022-05-20T15:08:16.000Z
- Updated: 2022-05-20T15:25:42.000Z
- Description: Lichfield District Council has confirmed an investigation is taking place over alleged fly-tipping on farmland in Burntwood.
- Author: Lichfield Live
- Tags: Burntwood, Politics, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-07-22 19:11, News

Lichfield District Council has confirmed an investigation is taking place over alleged fly-tipping on farmland in Burntwood.

It comes following the release of a video online by a local farmer after he found names and addresses on bags of waste that had been dumped.

The film showed a farm worker handing over the waste to Cllr Thomas Loughbrough-Rudd, independent member for Burntwood North at Staffordshire County Council, at a property in Hammerwich.

The councillor [told *Lichfield Live*](https://lichfieldlive.co.uk/burntwood-councillor-sa-ys-he-does-not-live-at-house-in-fly-tipping-video/) that his address had been on some of the paperwork found in the dumped rubbish, but said he no longer lived at the house in the video.

> “It had a letter addressed to me from a mobile phone company which was the SIM card I gave to my partner at the time we were together from February – which means it must have been there for some time – and other stuff from members of that household that I shall not disclose.”  
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> Cllr Thomas Loughbrough-Rudd, Staffordshire County Council

Cllr Loughbrough-Rudd added that he had been visiting the property where he once lived with his partners when the video was filmed.

> “This gentleman turned up randomly on the one day I returned to my former partners’ house and dumped a bag I believed had been binned. Clearly it had not.  
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> “He drove away after I’d gone through and went back to see if they was still there to discuss it.  
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> “I will reach out to said gentlemen to resolve the matter and meet his employer.”  
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> Cllr Thomas Loughbrough-Rudd, Staffordshire County Council

A Lichfield District Council confirmed to *Lichfield Live* that an investigation into fly-tipping had now begun.

Meanwhile, Staffordshire County Council would not comment directly on Cllr Loughbrough-Rudd’s appearance in the video, but a spokesperson said anyone with evidence of illegal fly-tipping should report it to the district council or the local police.