A MAN has been fined for dumping fascia boards, a garden table and a car parcel shelf on land in County Durham.
John Joseph McMeekin, from Ash Green Way, in Bishop Auckland, appeared before Peterlee Magistrates Court on Friday, where he pleaded guilty to flytipping and transporting the waste when not a registered waste carrier.
The court heard that a neighbourhood warden from Durham County Council visited Brussleton Lane, in Shildon, on May 6, and found a recently-dumped pile of rubbish.
Footage from a camera at the site showed a man throwing the items onto a public footpath from the back of a van.
The vehicle was traced back to McMeekin, 44, who was later interviewed where he admitted to flytipping and not having the correct waste carriers’ licence.
He was fined £200, ordered to pay a £150 court charge and a £20 victim surcharge.
Following the sentencing, councillor Brian Stephens, the county council’s cabinet member for neighbourhoods and local partnerships, said: “There is no excuse for flytipping and we will continue to work with our partners as part of Operation Stop It to tackle this issue.
“The campaign is continuing to prove a success and has seen flytipping decrease by more than 30 per cent and resulted in 51 prosecutions linked to waste crime, including 44 for flytipping offences and seven involving waste carriers who failed to have a proper licence.”
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