A LICENSEE has to pay £600 for failing to prevent flytipping.
Balwinder Singh Thukral, aged 51, of Burbages Lane, Rowleys Green, was fined and ordered to pay the costs for failing to take appropriate checks to prevent flytipping, which included a sofa being dumped and bags of rubbish.
The case was brought after Coventry City Council’s environmental crime unit received a complaint that a large amount of waste had been dumped in Church Walk, Allesley and Jubilee Crescent, in Radford, last April.
Officers visited the site and found evidence among the waste which linked it to The Vault public house in High Street in the city centre.
A visit to the premises showed the public house was closed and undergoing extensive refurbishment.
Mr Thukral was served with a notice under the Environmental Protection Act that told him to provide evidence regarding who he had employed to remove the waste.
During the investigation it was found Thukral had not taken appropriate checks to prevent the flytipping.
He pleaded guilty at Coventry Crown Court on Wednesday April 7 where he received a fine of £250 and ordered to pay costs of £350.
Joy Adams, the council’s principal environmental health officer, said: “All businesses have a legal duty of care to ensure their waste is taken to a licensed waste site by a registered waste carrier.
“As part of their duty they must also keep a record through waste transfer notes so as to prove that their waste has not been flytipped.
“As part of the city council’s fight against flytipping, officers from the environmental crime unit are regularly visiting businesses to check they have got appropriate waste contracts.”
Any business wishing to check whether a waste carrier is registered or for further information can call the Environment Agency on 08708 506 506 or visit www.environment-agency.gov.uk.
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