A Brighton builder was fined £300 after dumping bags of rubble next to a school in Hove.
Officers from the city council’s environmental enforcement team found evidence in the rubble linking it to the address of a property currently being refurbished by 1st Format Building Services, a Hove builder run by Mark Jones.
Council officers visited the property, where the building works supervisor admitted he had been approached by two males in a white transit van who offered to dispose of his waste for £50.
Jones was issued with a £300 fixed penalty notice for failing to produce waste transfer documents for the fly-tipped rubble, a requirement of the Environmental Protection Act 1990. He was also ordered to pay for the cost of removing the waste.
A council spokesman said that Jones would only have had to pay £80 to dispose of the rubble legally.
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Fly-tipping: what builders need to know
