A man from Downend and another from Cardiff have been prosecuted following investigations into separate incidents of fly-tipping by South Gloucestershire Council\u2019s Environmental Crime Team.<\/p>\n
Sunil Singh, 22 of Buckingham Place, Downend, dumped various bags of household waste at Down Road in Winterbourne during August 2021, despite being entitled to dispose of the waste legally at his local Sort It recycling centre.<\/p>\n
Singh was fined \u00a3200 and ordered to pay \u00a3354 in costs after pleading guilty to fly-tipping at Bristol Magistrates Court. After being cleared, the Down Road fly-tip was examined and evidence was found relating to an address in Holcombe, Radstock.<\/p>\n
Officers from the Environmental Crime Team visited the address and established that Singh had previously lived there but had since moved to a new address in South Gloucestershire. It transpired that the fly-tip was discovered less than half a mile from his new home.<\/p>\n
Louis Henry 28, of Clos\u2013Y\u2013Gelyn, Cardiff pleaded guilty to fly-tipping at Bristol Magistrates court and was fined \u00a3320 and ordered to pay \u00a3376 in costs, after a member of the public witnessed him throwing cardboard from the back of a van onto the verge of the A46, Clay Pitch, near Horton, South Gloucestershire, in September this year.<\/p>\n
Henry realised he had been spotted and drove off, but the quick-witted witness took the registration number of the van and reported it to South Gloucestershire Council. Henry\u2019s vehicle was traced, and he was interviewed by the Environmental Crime Team in relation to the incident.<\/p>\n
Henry admitted fly-tipping and stated that he realised he had been seen dumping the cardboard. He knew his actions were illegal, which is why he later returned and removed the waste.<\/p>\n
Cabinet Member for Communities and Local Place, Cllr Rachael Hunt said: \u201cThere is no excuse for fly-tipping and with these particular cases, a simple trip to the local recycling centre would have meant this waste was disposed of lawfully.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe will pursue anyone who dumps their rubbish illegally through the courts and we have a 100% success rate for securing convictions for this type of offence. Anyone who fly-tips in South Gloucestershire is five times more likely to be prosecuted than anywhere else in the country.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn addition to it being illegal, it\u2019s plain laziness to dump rubbish in this way and expect others to clear the mess left behind. We hope these prosecutions serve as a warning to anyone else who considers fly-tipping in South Gloucestershire.\u201d<\/p>\n
Unwanted goods and household or garden waste can all be disposed of at no cost via the council\u2019s Sort IT! * Centres https:\/\/beta.southglos.gov.uk\/recycling-centres<\/a><\/p>\n Residents who see illegal fly tipping are encouraged to report it by contacting the StreetCare helpdesk on 01454 868000, emailing streetcare@southglos.gov.uk<\/a> or visiting www.southglos.gov.uk\/flytipping<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A man from Downend and another from Cardiff have been prosecuted following investigations into separate incidents of fly-tipping by South Gloucestershire Council\u2019s Environmental Crime Team. Sunil Singh, 22 of Buckingham Place, Downend, dumped various bags of household waste at Down Road in Winterbourne during August 2021, despite being entitled to dispose of the waste legally […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":624,"featured_media":23711,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[561],"tags":[2576,2364],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.southglos.gov.uk\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23710"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.southglos.gov.uk\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.southglos.gov.uk\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.southglos.gov.uk\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/624"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.southglos.gov.uk\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23710"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.southglos.gov.uk\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23712,"href":"https:\/\/sites.southglos.gov.uk\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23710\/revisions\/23712"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.southglos.gov.uk\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.southglos.gov.uk\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.southglos.gov.uk\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.southglos.gov.uk\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}