Environmental Protection: Fly-Tipping Leads to £520 Fine for Careless Waste Disposal
Magistrates this week ordered an Ipswich man to pay a £200 fine and £300 costs after waste he removed from a house was dumped in two locations in Babergh.
Magistrates this week ordered an Ipswich man to pay a £200 fine and £300 costs after waste he removed from a house was dumped in two locations in Babergh.
At Redhill Magistrates’ Court, Mark Bryan, (trading as Edge Clearance Services) of Grenaby Avenue, Croydon CR0 2EG pleaded guilty to 26 offences relating to fly tipping. He was given three years conditional discharge and ordered to pay the Council’s clear up costs of £1500, as well as legal costs of £1170.
Access Selby’s enforcement and legal teams, working on behalf of Selby District Council, have brought three successful fly tipping prosecutions.
A Llanelli man has been fined £295 by the courts for fly-tipping in a back lane. Steven Jones was also ordered to pay £641.38 prosecution costs and a £15 victim surcharge by Carmarthen magistrates.
On Friday 25 January at Redhill Magistrates’ Court, Alexander Berry, of Anderson House, Tooting SW17 0HL, pleaded guilty to failing in his duty of care, passing waste to someone not authorised to take it and without the appropriate paperwork, with the result the waste was flytipped.