A permanent team is set to be created to tackle fly tipping in "unadopted" back streets across Bolton.

Late last year Bolton Council started a trial project aimed at dealing with fly tipping on backstreet that were not publicly maintained, and so likely to attract fly tipping.

The authority is now poised to make the posts recruited to work on this permanent.

A council report said: "Unadopted highways are roads that are not publicly maintained highways.

"Therefore, the local authority is under no obligation to maintain, repair or remove waste from this type of road.

Bolton Council is set to establish permanent roles to tackle fly tipping on unadopted backstreets(Image: Anthony Moss)

"For all unadopted roads, it is very difficult and expensive to identify land ownership.

"As a result of the above, unadopted roads will often quickly degrade and give an untidy appearance to the local area.

"This is also seen as a very unwelcoming environment for local residents."

It added: "This inevitable lack of ownership, attracts further unsociable environmental behaviour such as littering, fly tipping and impacts on residents' duty of care in controlling their own domestic waste.

"The lack of ownership and understanding of unadopted roads inevitably affects nearby residents and visitors."

At a budget meeting last February, the council agreed that the fixed term resources they put into place to deal with fly tipping like this should be made permanent.

The Neighbourhood Enforcement Action Team for unadopted roads had been made up of two fixed term contract positions and an agency worker hired during the 12-month trial period.

They had worked to both improve the environment on unadopted roads and to educate people about environmental issues.

They also issued fixed penalty notices where appropriate and cleaned up fly tips.

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The council proposed spending £100,000 on permanent contracts for the two roles and on hiring a caged van for 12 months, with some funds also used for staff cover and planned events.

The permanent roles will be a neighbourhood care charge hand and a neighbourhood care operative.

The funding had already been decided by the council last February.

Council cabinet member for the environment and climate change Cllr Richard Silvester will decide on approving the report at an executive cabinet member meeting next week.