£19k fine for illegal waste dumping
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Operator: Martells of Sutton Matter: Environmental Hearing: Crawley Magistrates' Court
WEST SUSSEX removals firm Martells of Sutton and one of its directors have been ordered to pay more than £19,000 for dumping excessive amounts of waste in a railway cutting.
In a case brought by the Environment Agency (EA), Crawley Magistrates' Court was told the company was granted planning permission for a new warehouse in February 2012.
During April and May that year it registered two U1 Waste Exemptions, which allow certain waste material to be used in construction but are still subject to strict environmental controls. However, by July the EA had received reports of dumping taking place at the site in Charlwoods Road, East Grinstead. Officers visited the site
and discovered that the company had acquired a redundant railway cutting behind the site since planning permission for the new warehouse was granted.
Large quantities of waste soils had been deposited in the railway cutting to support the new building, replacing the retaining wall that had been approved in the planning permission.
Martells of Sutton and its director Charles Martell pleaded guilty to the Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2010 breaches. Summing up
The investigation identified that almost seven times the amount of waste permitted under the Ul Waste Exemption had been imported to the site.