Farmer George Farrant is calling for the closure of a layby, one of the worst in the county for flytipping Roseena Parveen.

Tons of rubbish have been dumped in the layby at Berinsfield, on the Oxford-Henley road and some of it blows on to Mr Farrant's land.

Now despite opposition from officers, Oxfordshire county councillors are to consider closing it.

Mr Farrant, of Drayton St Leonard, told councillors at a highways committee meeting that lorryloads of rubbish, including fridges, timber, tree clippings and domestic waste, had been tipped illegally at the site. Environmental services director David Young warned that closure could put drivers in danger. He said ten fatal accidents in Oxfordshire in 1998 were due to driver fatigue and illness, and that that was enough reason to keep the layby open.

He added: "If laybys were to be closed travellers would be more likely to invade private land, from which removal of them would be more difficult and more costly."

But the committee agreed to investigate closure of the Berinsfield layby as a matter of urgency.

Environment Agency officer David Rounding said he had kept a diary and the layby was the worst he knew of. He said: "This particular layby is regularly tipped because it is masked from the road by trees, so it is hard to see the people doing the dumping."

South Oxfordshire District Council, which is responsible for clearing the layby, has lobbied the county council to close it.

Mr Farrant, who took time off from harvesting to plead with the councillors for help, said: "Our land is constantly bombarded with other people's rubbish. It is dumping on a substantial and commercial scale."