Landfill operator fined for delaying closure of site

A landfill operator has been fined £4,000 for delaying to shut down an old site, it has been revealed.

Naylor Drainage was taken to Barnsley Magistrates' Court, where it was reported how the firm failed to comply with a deadline set by the Environment Agency to close the existing Banks Wood Quarry site in Hadden.

The Environment Agency's prosecutor Trevor Cooper said the company failed to hand in a closure report by August 2009, which details how the operator will maintain the site when it had stopped receiving waste.

Poor weather and "severe cashflow problems" were blamed for the delay of the report, which was finally handed in two months late, but was not complete.

Naylor Drainage pleaded guilty to one offence under the Environmental Permitting Regulations and had to pay full prosecution costs of £1,300, as well as the fee.

Earlier this month, another fine was handed out as a result of an investigation led by the Environment Agency as Stephen Harold Lack, trading as Abbey Skips, was charged £5,000 for burning waste without having a licence to do so.

Posted by Joseph Hutton