A fly-tipping hot spot which borders Croydon, Merton, and Sutton and was once described as a ‘hazard’ is finally being cleared after a number of years.

An estimated 50 tonnes of rubbished had been dumped in Redhouse Road, stretching 200 metres, sparking anger among residents when we reported about it last February.

Now it will be cleared by a working group involving Mitcham Common Conservators, its landowners the Driver Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA), Capital On Site Ltd, residential landowners, businessmen, as well as both Merton and Sutton councils.

Neil Judge, of Heron Way, previously said: “It’s such an eyesore. You have rats that live there, that run across the road.

“It’s just generally a really unpleasant site, and it’s been liked that for years. People use it as a dumping ground for anything they can think of.

“It’s a hazard. It’s just a matter of time before someone gets hurt.”

Footage posted by Twitter user JBrown2965 on December 26 showed the extent of the problem with the pavement lined with rubbish before showing vehicles which appear to be unoccupied at the time of filming.

They said: “[It has been there] roughly two years now. I’ve complained to several different councils regarding this.

“As you can imagine, it is infuriating, not to mention how dangerous it could be for children or animals in the common. And the fact it has been like this for two plus years is a joke.”

New security gates will be installed to prevent future fly-tipping while Veolia’s street cleaning team will clear the waste away and recycle where possible to mitigate rubbish going to the landfill.

Councillor Timothy Godfrey, Mitcham Common Conservators chairman, said: “After years of Red House Road being a blot on Mitcham Common’s landscape, it is great that this notorious fly tipping hot spot will be cleared.

“Our main priority as a group is to secure the land, so fly-tipping in this part of the common is a problem of the past. Once the security gates are installed, the waste will be cleared away.

“I would like to thank everyone in the working group who have come together to make clearing this site a possibility.”

A Sutton Council spokesman added: “Redhouse Road is privately owned by the Driving and Vehicle Standards Agency and the fly-tipping itself is also on private land which is owned and managed by the Mitcham Common Conservators.

“As such, Sutton Council has no direct responsibility for the waste but has been working with landowners to help resolve the longstanding issues of fly-tipping along the road.

“Kingston and Sutton Shared Environment Service recently used CCTV footage to investigate one of the fly-tipping incidents and an individual was issued with and paid a £400 fixed penalty notice.”

There is currently no date on when the works will take place.