16/05/2005 - A Dorset
skip-hire company owner who illegally stored
waste on a trading estate was today ordered
to pay £725 by Wimborne Magistrates.
The case against Nigel Allen of Van Allen
Services, was brought by the Environment
Agency after it visited a premises at Waterside,
Fleets Industrial Estate, Willis Way, Poole
on October 28, 2004.
The officers found a number of skips, nine
of which were filled with waste including
plastic, furniture, wood, rubble, paper
and demolition wastes. Inside one of the
industrial units were two further skips
one of which was partially filled with plasterboard
and black bin bags.
The discovery followed a visit to the site
earlier in the year (July 9) when two Environment
Agency officers met the owner of the business,
Nigel Allen, and told him that any storage
of waste on the site would require a waste
management licence.
A letter was sent to Mr Allen on August
9, 2004 confirming this and supplying an
application form for a licence.
On November 19 under interview, Mr Allen
admitted he’d arranged for skips including
those containing mixed loads of asbestos
and other wastes to be brought back to Unit
F in order to be kept on site until the
disposal site was ready for them.
Nigel Allen, 52, of Van Allen Skips, 4
Coventry Close, Corfe Mullen, Dorset, pleaded
guilty today that on or about October 28
2004 he did knowingly cause or knowingly
permit controlled waste to be kept on a
site, at Unit F, Waterside, Willis Way,
Poole, which did not have a waste management
licence in force authorising such activities.
Contrary to Section 33(1)(b) and (6) of
the Environmental Protection Act 11000.
Nigel Allen was given a two year conditional
discharge and ordered to pay £725
costs.
"This method of working, with skips
stored outside, would not be permitted under
a licence. Mr Allen has run a waste management
company for a number of years and should
have known better," said Clive Clasby
for the Environment Agency.
The Environment Agency’s free 24 hour hotline
for reporting environmental incidents is
0800 80 70 60.
