A woman received a £500 fly-tipping fine after leaving furniture outside her house for people to rehome.
Isabelle Pepin was issued the fine by Bournemouth, Christchurch & Poole council after she put an Ikea cabinet out with a note stating it was free. It was left on her road for a few hours, but was not taken and was moved back to her driveway.
Three weeks later an enforcement official visited her and told her she would have to pay a £500 fine for fly-tipping. He said it would be doubled to £1,000 if it went unpaid.
“It’s not fly-tipping, that is not what is happening here. It’s recycling things people no longer want or need,” Pepin, 42, said. She added that the official was