Environment Agency | A Telford man has been ordered to pay £1,000 for failing to clear an illegal waste site following a prosecution by the Environment Agency.
At Telford Magistrates Court, Brian Woods, 70, of Limekiln Bank, St Georges, Telford, pleaded guilty to failing to comply with a court order to clear waste from a site on Granville Road, Donnington Wood.
He had previously admitted to running a waste operation without a permit, contrary to Environmental Permitting Regulations (the Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2016).
For that offence, he received a 12-month community order to do 100 hours of unpaid work. He was also ordered to pay £1,470 in costs and £114 victim’s surcharge.
The case started in August 2019 when Woods admitted to storing waste on the site between December 2016 and April 2017 without an environmental permit.
The case was adjourned on condition that Woods removed all the waste from the site by 26 July 2020. He was also ordered not to bring any additional waste onto the site.
Between July 2020 and June 2024, Environment Agency officers made several checks on the site to find that the waste had not been removed.
Woods on a number of occasions did not attend scheduled meetings. He cited ill health or medical appointments as the reason.
The defendant said in mitigation that following the collapse of his business he was not in a financial position to clear the site of waste.
It was said some 75% of the waste had now been removed.
