Action by Hammersmith & Fullam has lead to 12 prosecutions for littering offenses.
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Council: London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham
Case 1
- Fine: £1,000
- Costs: £1,500
- Total: £2,500
Case 2 (11 Prosecutions)
- Fine: £2,110
- Costs: £1,935
- Total: £387.72
The manager of a sandwich company has been fined after pleading guilty to fly-tipping bags of rubbish in Hammersmith.
Vishal Kakar, who owns the Subway franchise in King Street, pleaded guilty at Hammersmith Magistrates on March 4 to three offences of unauthorised disposal of rubbish and failing to carry out his duty of care by not disposing of the rubbish properly.
On two separate occasions in 2012 on April 20 and May 25, and again on February 8 last year, street scene enforcement officers carrying out routine inspections of King Street found black bags left outside the shop, on the pavement.
The bags contained cardboard boxes, empty drink cups and used sandwich wrappers with Subway printed on them along with left-over vegetables, paper napkins, wrappers, plastic packaging material, pieces of bread, cookies and used blue tissue paper.
Kakar was fined £250 for each offence, making a total of £1,000, and ordered to pay costs of £1,500 as well as a £25 victim surcharge.
Eleven smokers who littered by throwing their cigarette butts on the street outside Shepherds Bush and Hammersmith tube stations have also recently been prosecuted by the council.
They appeared at Hammersmith Magistrates Court and between them were fined £2,110, ordered to pay costs and surcharges totalling £1,935. One Acton resident was also sentenced to a conditional discharge for six months.
On February 4, Gary Gascoigne of Harlscott Road, Peckham, Caroline Quirke of Filmer Road, Fulham, Eszther Hilszenrath of Chesterton Terrace, Plaistow and Gabriella Botosova of Riverside Gardens in Hammersmith were each fined £200, ordered to pay £300 in costs and a £20 victim surcharge. Kishok Sunthararajah of Bilton Road, Perivale, Greenford, was fined £75 and ordered to pay £50 in costs and a £20 victim surcharge.
On February 25, John Jobson of Batoum Gardens, Hammersmith, was fined £400 and ordered to pay costs of £200 and a £40 victim surcharge.
On March 4, Sean Harrison of Crossway, Raynes Park, David Laverty of Wyndham Crescent, Tuffnell Park and Radoslaw Marcin Ziarnowski of Seward Road, Ealing, were each fined £200 and ordered to pay £50 in costs and a £20 victim surcharge.
At the same hearing, Trevor Grant of Birkbeck Road, Acton, was conditionally discharged for six months and ordered to pay £50 in costs and a £15 victim surcharge while Charles Carter of London Road, Leicester was fined £135 and ordered to pay costs of £50 and a £20 victim surcharge.
The council has installed 38 new dual recycling and rubbish bins, which also have ashtrays, in King Street from Hammersmith Broadway to Studland Street.
The bins have recycling symbols that show what can be placed in the recycling side, including cans, plastic bottles, paper, card and cartons. Items like crisp packets, sweet wrappers, tissues and dirty food packaging should be placed in the waste section of the litter bin, so that they do not contaminate the clean and dry recycling.
If the bins prove successful, they could be rolled out across the borough.
