Firm is fined for fly tipping

Kara Marchant

26 June 2008

A BLACKPOLE company has been fined £22,000 for illegally dumping waste at a farm.
Mid Developments, a transport and haulage company based at Blackpole Trading Estate, was found guilty of two charges of fly tipping waste and failing to supply paperwork to the Environment Agency.
Stratford-upon-Avon Magistrates’ Court heard that in September 2005 the owner of Ryton Fields Farm near Coventry saw a Mid Developments lorry dump piles of soil and construction waste on their field without permission.
Subsequent investigations by the Environment Agency discovered that 620 tonnes of waste had been dumped illegally on the farm land by the company.
Magistrates fined the company £22,000 and ordered it to pay costs of £9,367.64.
No-one from Mid Developments was in court.
Speaking after the case, Colin Sully, an Environment Agency officer involved in the case said: “Mid Developments dumped tonnes of waste without the landowner’s consent and this is unacceptable.
“Fly-tipping is an eyesore and it poses an environmental risk.”
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