Swaffham: Fly-tipper feels force of the law
A SWAFFHAM man who admitted fly-tipping waste from a housing project on a site in North Norfolk has been given a suspended prison sentence.
Duncan Johnstone was sentenced to four months in prison, suspended for a year, and ordered to do 60 hours of unpaid work, by Norwich magistrates on January 12.
He was also ordered to pay £242 costs to North Norfolk Council, which brought the prosecution and had to pay for clearing the discarded waste.
The court was told Johnstone fly-tipped a small lorry load of waste from a housing renovation project on a quiet lane in Neatishead, on The Broads, between November 13 and 26, 2010.
A person who spotted the abandoned pile of rubbish reported it to the district council’s environmental protection team. Council investigators found personal details among the waste which led them to a property in Happisburgh.
Further investigations by council officers led them to the defendant, who was arrested in October 2011 after work involving Norfolk police’s Operation Radar team, the Environment Agency and district council environmental protection officers.
Trevor Ivory, North Norfolk Council cabinet member for localism and legal services, said: “The cost of clearing up fly-tipping is a major burden for landowners and council taxpayers, on top of the blight that fly-tipping can cause local communities.
“North Norfolk Council has a zero tolerance approach to people who fly-tip and I am delighted that the courts share our concern. Hopefully the threat of a prison sentence will make people tempted to fly-tip think again.”
Figures from the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs show that, in the last 12 months, local authorities dealt with 861,000 fly-tipping incidents, at an estimated cost of £41.3m.
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