Waste control threatens licence
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• Blackpool skip hire operator Raymond Baguley has been warned that further convictions involving controlled waste will put his Operator's Licence at risk.
Appearing before North Western Traffic Commissioner Martin Albu at a Manchester public inquiry, Baguley was told that five convictions—including a three-month prison sentence— called his fitness to hold a licence into question.
months later he received a three-month prison sentence for breaching an injunction obtained by Lancashire County Council in August last year. In February of this year he was fined £1250 and ordered to pay £2,814.31 costs at Preston Crown Court for one offence of using land in contravention of an enforcement order and two offences of depositing controlled waste without a licence and using plant and equipment to do so.
Baguley blamed his convictions on the fact he branched into recycling and did not have a licence for a waste transfer and recycling plant—he did not realise he needed it and LCC shut him down.
After Albu had pointed out that one of the convictions involved the unlawful deposit of controlled waste, Baguley said that the county council allowed waste to be "deposited" in a skip.
Baguley said the county council accepted him as a proper person to (wry waste, having issued him with a certificate. He was paid to take waste away and he paid the tip charge out of what he received. He said that the material became his as soon as it was in the skip.
Taking no action, Albu said Baguley's main quarrel was with the local authority. However, he knows that both the county council and Blackpool Borough Council are considering further action.