Loanhead man fined £360 for waste offence
4 July 2011
A former Loanhead businessman was fined £360 at Edinburgh
Sheriff Court last Friday (1 July) for illegally storing waste.
James M Cunningham pled guilty to knowingly permitting
controlled waste, namely household, industrial and commercial waste
consisting of soil, rubble and general mixed waste, to be kept and
treated on an area of land at Yard 2, The Clippens, Straiton Road,
,Loanhead, which had no waste management licence in place. The
matter was reported to the Procurator Fiscal by the Scottish
Environment Protection Agency (SEPA).
Chris Gall, Senior Environment Protection Officer in SEPA's
Edinburgh and Lothians team, said:
"We want to help people avoid pollution of the environment, and
we work with operators to ensure they know what their
responsibilities are. However, if you are knowingly running a site
without the necessary licensing and environmental protection
measures in place, SEPA will use its enforcement powers to protect
the environment and ensure legitimate operators are not
disadvantaged."
Ends
Notes to editor
The exact charge James M Cunningham pled guilty to was:
- Between 18 March 2010 and 26 April 2010 at Yard 2, The
Clippens, Straiton Road, Loanhead, Midlothian you JAMES M
CUNNINGHAM PARTNER IN A FIRM TRADING AS BEAVER WASTE MANAGEMENT did
knowingly permit controlled waste, namely household, industrial and
commercial waste consisting of soil, rubble and general mixed waste
to be kept and treated in or on said land otherwise than in
accordance with a waste management licence in that waste was
treated and kept at the said Yard 2 in respect of which land no
waste management licence was in place; CONTRARY to the
Environmental Protection Act 1990, Section 33(1)(b).