Rip off

A waste company and one of its officers have been ordered to pay a total of £19960 in fines, costs and victim surcharges.

The defendants faced two allegations each, first for failing to comply with the conditions of their environmental permit and secondly failing to comply with a regulation 36 Environmental Permitting Regulations notice to remove the excessive waste from the site by the 17 August 2011.
Teale Waste Management Ltd were fined £7000 for each of the two offences, ordered to pay a contribution to prosecution costs of £3130 and a victim surcharge of £15. Barry Medlicott senior, 52 of 9 Selborne Way, Whitehill, Bordon was fined £750 for each offence, ordered to pay a contribution to prosecution costs in the sum of £1000 and a £15 victim surcharge. He was also disqualified from being a company director for a period of two years.
Teale Waste Management Ltd operates a waste transfer station in Rosewood, Hampshire. The environmental permit, initially granted to the land owner Alan Bray, was transferred over to Teale Waste Management Ltd in early February 2011.
The Andover Magistrate Court heard how the defendants received repeated advice and warnings to comply with the permit conditions however they continually failed to bring the site into compliance as requested. The Environment Agency officers found the waste levels at the Rosewood site consistently exceeded the fence height. On one survey they found piles were reaching 5.5m (17.5ft) above the general concrete ground, with the volume of 1500 cubic metres, the equivalent to roughly 100 lorry loads of waste. This, along with poorly maintained litter netting, risked windblown litter escaping the site boundaries. The defendants' poor management of the site and the lack of regular turnaround of the waste attracted rats onto the site along with consequent health risks. Other breaches included prohibited waste storage in skips outside of the site and burning of waste materials.