Wetherspoon furniture fly-tipped in New Forest car park

David McClure was out walking his dogs on Saturday morning when he stumbled across the mountainous pile in Brockenhurst.

Several tables and chairs have been left stacked at the Longslade Bottom car park – along with a box of individually wrapped shortbread.

A far cry from a Wetherspoon pub, David described the discovery as ‘very odd.’

The 62-year-old said: “I came across it between 7.30am and 8am on Saturday.

“I drove and parked there to take my dogs for a walk.

“The waste is very unusual and very identifiable. It is from a Wetherspoon pub - there are tables there with all the table numbers still on them.

“I was thinking they are quite good tables, only need a bit of sanding down, there wasn’t really anything wrong with them.

“It’s all very odd.

“How many Wetherspoon pubs are there round here? I know lots have closed.”

David, who lives in Sway, has never previously come across fly-tipped waste in the New Forest.

But he certainly did not expect to see some from a pub chain.

He said: “It was a shock to see it.

“And there was a great big box of shortbreads. They were all in date and all new and unopened.

“I don’t know why a person would dump the shortbreads there as well, it’s all very odd to see.

“You certainly wouldn’t throw out a box of shortbread.”

This comes after thousands of PPE packs were dumped in the New Forest earlier this year.

The mountain of unused PPE was fly-tipped at Little Testwood Farm in Calmore, with packs left out in the open next to Testwood Lakes Nature Reserve.

The items were first found by officials at New Forest District Council.

The incident was later reported to the Environment Agency which launched an investigation.

The New Forest District Council website states incidents of fly-tipping are taken very seriously.

A spokesperson said: “We aim to reduce fly-tipping through increased prosecutions, improved reporting and education.

“If fly-tipping on council-owned land is reported to us, we will remove it.

“We will investigate all fly-tipping incidents for evidence to help us find the person responsible, so we can prosecute them.

“If a fly-tip is on private land, it is the landowner or occupier's responsibility to arrange for it to be removed.”

Wetherspoon has been contacted for comment.