Rolls of carpet, cardboard boxes, bags of household waste and even two steel radiators recently were dumped alongside Trigg Lane, in White Coppice.

Disgusted residents reported the problem straight away but claim Chorley Council didn't respond until the Guardian brought the problem to their attention.

Alan Waring, who lives in Trigg Lane, says the council need to be more proactive in the fight against flytippers.

He said: "The council have been naming and shaming flytippers recently and I want them to do the same here.

"I found personal details on the piles of rubbish and gave them to the authorities but I've not heard anything.
"It looks like who ever has done this has had a massive clear-out so it could even be the contractors who have dumped the rubbish. It is making an eyesore of a beauty spot and something needs to be done."

The strip of land in the West Pennine Moors is popular with dog walkers and ramblers.

But for much of last week it was home to an assortment of black bin bags, household waste, rubble and two household radiators.

Concerns have also been raised that the junk could attract vermin.
Mr Waring, who runs Town and Village estate agents, discovered the problem at 11pm on Tuesday. He reported it to the council first thing on Wednesday morning - but by Friday afternoon the rubbish still hadn't been cleaned up.

Chorley Council's corporate director for neighbourhoods, Ishbel Murray, said the incident was being taken very seriously.

She said: "We received a report about flytipping off Trigg Lane on Thursday and we immediately sent one of our neighbourhood officers to investigate but there was too much rubbish for them to move it all.

"We will be out in the next couple of days to clean the area up.

"Flytipping is an issue we a take very seriously and if we can find evidence to prove who dumped this rubbish then we will prosecute them."