The delayed prosecution of a housebuilder over an alleged sewage effluent discharge into a County Durham watercourse has been re-scheduled for the second time.
Taylor Wimpey UK Ltd was to have gone on trial at Durham Crown Court facing two charges brought by the Environment Agency, in May last year.
Due to the unavailability of the key prosecution witness, who was to be out of the country at the time, it was brought out of the court list only 11 days before it was to have begun.
The case was relisted to take place this week, but due to a clash with another trial, which went ahead at the court on Monday (March 3), the Environment Agency prosecution has, once again, had to be rearranged.
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The prosecution was brought by the agency over what it claims was the discharge of sewage effluent into a tributary of the Shotton Beck, following work on a housing development in Sedgefield, in September 2019.
When the hearing was re-listed last year Ben Williams, for Taylor Wimpey, said in a case arising from events in September 2019 it would further disadvantage the company by moving the trial back by ten months.
He said there was likely to be a “wasted costs order” made on behalf of the company against the agency.
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