THE WEEK IN East Bristol & North East Somerset
14th July 2021
Issue 687
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Waste firm owner gets suspended jail sentence for fly-tipping A man from Siston has been sentenced to 18 weeks in prison, suspended for a year, and ordered to carry out 200 hours of unpaid work following the discovery of a flytip at Henfield Road at Lyde Green. Jordan Payne, of Arnold Road, appeared at Bristol Magistrates’ Court following an investigation by South Gloucestershire Council’s environmental enforcement team into the huge fly-tip in which furniture, garden waste and disused building materials were strewn along the road. He was also ordered to pay a total of £2,391 in prosecution and clear-up costs. During the investigation, waste from the fly-tip in August 2020 was identified by a householder as having been removed from their property after they had paid Payne to dispose of it. Payne was subsequently prosecuted for the waste-related offences of flytipping, not holding any waste transfer notes and storing collected waste in and around his home address. The investigation found that Payne had obtained a registered waste carrier Hanham licence in July 2020 and created a Facebook page to
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advertise his business, called ‘Jordan’s Waste Clearance’. Over the next six weeks during lockdown, he travelled across Bristol and South Gloucestershire collecting waste for payment from variety of locations. He would often store the waste outside or near his home address before moving it elsewhere. During an interview, Payne produced a statement admitting that he had dumped some of the waste at Henfield Road but not all of it. He claimed to have disposed of the waste at a waste management business in Bristol but stated that his records had been thrown away when his vehicle was recently sold. No Bristol-based, waste businesses had record of him disposing of anything. South Gloucestershire Council’s Cabinet Member for Communities & Local Place, Cllr Rachael Hunt said: “This was a brazen act of fly-tipping on the public highway without any thought given to the impact it would have on our residents, or the hazard and disruption it would cause to road users. “Fly-tipping blights communities and our zero-tolerance approach means that anyone who fly-tips in South Gloucestershire is up to five times more likely to be prosecuted than anywhere else in the country. “Our award-winning environmental enforcement team has a 100 per cent record of securing successful prosecutions for this type of offence and if you fail in your duty of care and
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Local waste collection crisis deepens . . . page 6
allow rubbish to be fly-tipped here, you can expect to be caught and brought before the courts. “We advise residents to always ask for a copy of the company’s waste carrier registration certificate and ask where their waste is being taken, otherwise you could be liable. Do not be tempted to use people offering cheap waste clearance on sites such as Facebook and Gumtree unless you have confirmed that they are registered with the Environment Agency.” • Row over lack of successful fly-tipping prosecutions in B&NES, page 7
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Hengrove man jailed for stealing from children’s charity . . . page 11