Skip firm fined after waste is lost from truck
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A motorist's complaint about rubbish falling off the back of a truck led to a skip hire firm being fined a total of £1,000 by Stratford-uponAvon magistrates.
James Potter Skip Hire of Swan Lane, Coventry was also ordered to pay £1,068 costs after admitting two offences of falling to control waste materials adequately under the Environmental Protection Act Claire Oaks, prosecuting, said a motorist complained to environmental health officers after seeing rubbish falling off the back of a vehicle on the 4445 at Cubbington, near Stratford in March.
The officers discovered that the vehicle in question had been driven by one of the company's employees. Dumped tiles, building waste and paperwork were also found dumped on land near Blue Cap Hill, Loxley, near Stratford and officers discovered documents among the rubble bearing the Potter Side Hire name.
Oaks said: "A driver employed by the skip hire firm had illegally dumped the materials after helping to carry out work on a hotel at nearby Alderrninster"
John Hallett, defending, said the firm had been in business for 13 years and that James Potter, who runs the business, had been unaware of what his drivers had done.
"My client informs roe that he had instructed his drivers about the Environmental Protection Act and the control of waste materials but did not know what they were doing," he said. "One of the lorry drivers now no longer works fir the fine