{"id":745,"date":"2025-08-27T09:05:43","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T09:05:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesssinglesmeet.com\/?p=745"},"modified":"2025-09-02T15:59:47","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T15:59:47","slug":"telford-man-fined-1000-for-failing-to-clear-illegal-waste-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/businesssinglesmeet.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/27\/telford-man-fined-1000-for-failing-to-clear-illegal-waste-site\/","title":{"rendered":"Telford man fined \u00a31,000 for failing to clear illegal waste site"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-beyondwords-marker=\"78fa4c24-f45d-4afa-bd4e-fc0f7e6daef8\" data-beyondwords-player=\"true\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<h4><img decoding=\"async\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-576536 size-full lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" alt=\"Waste crime\" width=\"860\" height=\"516\" data-src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.circularonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Woodswastecasepic__1_.jpg?resize=860%2C516&amp;ssl=1\"><\/h4>\n<h4>A Telford man has been ordered to pay \u00a31,000 for failing to clear an illegal waste site following a prosecution by the Environment Agency.<\/h4>\n<p>Brian Woods, 70, pleaded guilty at Telford Magistrates Court to failing to comply with a court order to clear waste from a site on Granville Road, Donnington Wood.<\/p>\n<p>He had previously admitted to running a waste operation without a permit, contrary to Environmental Permitting Regulations.<\/p>\n<p>For that offence, he received a 12-month community order to do 100 hours of unpaid work and was also ordered to pay \u00a31,470 in costs, and a \u00a3114 victim\u2019s surcharge.<\/p>\n<p>In 2019, Woods admitted he was storing waste on the site between December 2016 and April 2017 without an environmental permit.<\/p>\n<p>The case was adjourned on condition that Woods remove all the waste from the site by July 2020 and was ordered not to bring any additional waste onto the site.<\/p>\n<p>Between July 2020 and June 2024, Environment Agency officers made several checks on the site to find that the waste had not been removed.<\/p>\n<p>Woods, on a number of occasions, did not attend scheduled meetings, citing ill health or medical appointments as the reason.<\/p>\n<p>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. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Environment Agency says around 75% of the waste has now been removed from the site.<\/p>\n<p>Commenting on the case, a spokesperson for the Environment Agency said: \u201cThe Environment Agency will pursue any person or company that fails to uphold the law to protect nature and will continue to press for the strongest possible penalties.\u202f\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFailure to comply with these legal requirements is a serious offence that can damage the environment and harm human health.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.circularonline.co.uk\/news\/telford-man-fined-1000-for-failing-to-clear-illegal-waste-site\/\">Telford man fined \u00a31,000 for failing to clear illegal waste site<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.circularonline.co.uk\">Circular Online<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 A Telford man has been ordered to pay \u00a31,000 for failing to clear an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":747,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/businesssinglesmeet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/businesssinglesmeet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/businesssinglesmeet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/businesssinglesmeet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/businesssinglesmeet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=745"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/businesssinglesmeet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":746,"href":"http:\/\/businesssinglesmeet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745\/revisions\/746"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/businesssinglesmeet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/businesssinglesmeet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/businesssinglesmeet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/businesssinglesmeet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}