A senior councillor has welcomed the decision to make a man pay for cleaning up the rubbish he dumped in a rural spot near Stafford.
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Andrew Cawley, from Corporation Street, Stafford was ordered to pay £1040 after admitting an offence of fly-tipping before local magistrates. He was fined £400 with £625 to pay for prosecution and clean-up costs.
This year around 190 cases of fly-tipping have been reported to Stafford Borough Council and the clean-up costs over the last five years have totalled more than £140,000.
The rubbish left in Tolldish Lane near the village of Great Haywood in July included building rubble and plumbing waste from a job 26 year old Cawley had been doing.
Cawley apologised to the court and told magistrates it was ‘totally’ out of character. He also has to pay a £15 victim surcharge.
After the case on Wednesday (21 November) Councillor Frank Finlay, cabinet member for environment and health, said: “Not only is fly-tipping a terrible blight on our countryside, it is also a burden on the council tax payer, and I am glad the magistrates made the defendant pay for the cost of cleaning it up.
“We have prosecuted several people this year for this type of environmental crime and our message is simple – if you treat our area as a rubbish dump then be prepared to be hit in the pocket.”
