Business Owner Fined After Flytipping
Written by HFM News on 3rd July 2019
A business owner who paid someone to take away and dispose of rubbish has been fined £300 after it was dumped in a country lane.
Plasterboard and packaging for electrical items was dumped in Houghton Lane in Stoughton and traced back to the man, from Leicester, after a Harborough Council investigation.
It is the third flytipping fine issued to be by the Council in just over a month.
Householders are legally responsible for any household waste produced on their property.
They have a ‘duty of care’ to check that any person or business disposing of waste on their behalf is legally allowed to do so.
Councillor Jonathan Bateman, the Council’s portfolio holder for environment and regulatory services, said: “Flytipping blights our district but thanks to the fantastic efforts of our investigation team we have issued three fines in recent weeks to those responsible for letting it happen.
“This underlines the Council’s commitment to doing all we can to tackle this issue across the district.”
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