A scrap yard owner was
today ordered to pay £2,541 in fines
and costs for keeping dozens of old cars
on land without a license. The case was
brought by the Environment Agency.
Environment Agency officers found scrap
vehicles, vehicle parts, scrap metal, drums
of waste oil and other wastes stored at
the Old Workshop at Fifehead St Quinton,
Dorset when they visited the site on February
9, 2005.
When they returned on February 24 the waste
still there. Stephen Smith, who was responsible
for the site, is a registered waste carrier
but does not have a waste management license
for the Old Workshop. He had previously
been warned by the Environment Agency about
his illegal activities
The court heard the site was vulnerable
to flooding and was therefore unsuitable
for use as a registered waste site.
Stephen Paul Smith, of The Old Workshop,
Fifehead St Quinton, Sturminster Newton,
Dorset, was today fined £1,400 and
ordered to pay £1,141 costs by Blandford
Magistrates after pleading guilty to keeping
and treating controlled waste on land without
a waste management license,
"The defendant has received advice
over a number of years to stop his activities
yet has persisted and deliberately committed
this offence," said Emma Tattersall
for the Environment Agency.
The Environment Agency’s free 24 hour hotline
for reporting environmental incidents is
0800 80 70 60.
