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Skip firm failed to tell TAO of six convictions
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The company had been prosecuted by the Environment Agency for six offences, resulting in a fine of £30,000.
A SK1P-HIRE firm that failed to disclose convictions for environmental offences has had its licence revoked.
Smethwick-based Thandi Skips appeared before West Midland Deputy Traffic Commissioner Miles Dorrington following convictions as a result of prosecutions brought by the Environment Agency.
The company had been convicted of six offences, for which it was fined £30,000 with £9.065 costs Sole director Amardeep Thandi was convicted of three similar offences and fined £5,000. The company secretary. Amardeep's father, Mibbo Thandi, was convicted of six similar offences, being fined £25,000. None of the offences were notified to the Traffic Area Office.
Mibbo Thandi said he was wrongly advised about the machinery he could use without planning permission at the site where material from his skips was sorted. Because of this, the Environment Agency had refused to allow him to operate the sorting machinery and he could not find external facilities to dispose of the material collected in his 250 skips.
Too much waste material accumulated at a time when the waste licence to undertake that work had expired. As a result, the company had ceased trading a year before the matter came to court, and a guilty plea was entered at the first opportunity by all those concerned.
Asked why he had not reported the convictions for the company or himself, Mibbo Thandi replied that since the offences were not transport-related, he had thought he did not need to. Amardeep Thandi said he had not thought the convictions had to be reported for the same reason, but he accepted he should have notified the Traffic Area Office that the company had ceased trading.
lie added that the company fines had not been paid because it had ceased trading before the court case, but fines for himself and his father were paid.
The DTC considered the lhandis were naive to trust the advice of an unqualified person regarding planning permission for site machinery, and he did not accept the explanation given for their failure to notify the TAO.