Post by Tangerine Sherlock on Feb 9, 2012 10:50:04 GMT 1
would have been better had he said it was the foundations for the new training ground lol
Blackpool FC chairman Karl Oyston has been convicted of illegally dumping waste from the building of a new stand in a field.
Oyston and two companies he is a director of were each fined £12,000 by Blackpool magistrates who also ordered costs of £5,213 and the £15 victims’ surcharge to be paid.
Oyston, a 45-year-old father-of-seven, of Claughton Hall, Lancaster, pleaded guilty to two breaches of laws made to protect the environment.
He admitted that as a director of the companies he consented in the commission by the companies of breaching environmental law by tipping waste without a permit at Whyndyke Farm, Peel, between March 2009 and April 2010.
Promenade Construction Limited and Closelink Limited, whose addresses were given as Blackpool Football Club, Seasiders Way, each admitted one breach of environmental law.
Nicola Watson, prosecuting for the Environment Agency, said the case concerned the illegal deposit of significant quantities of commercial waste at Whyndyke Farm, which Closelink Limited had bought in 2004.
Environment officers visited the farm in February 2010 after receiving a tip-off rubbish was illegally being tipped there.
They found 15 to 20 mounds of waste which included soil, rocks wood and plastic. A large area of waste measuring 20 metres by 20 metres had also been flattened into a pad.
At their second visit in April that year more waste had been dumped.
There were 30 to 40 mounds of about 18 to 20 tons each, which consisted of concrete, plastic, wood and soil.
The prosecutor added that the waste had been dumped at the farm as the result of constructing Blackpool Football Club’s South stand and Oyston had consented to the two companies allowing the tipping of the waste at the farm without a permit.
John Woosnam, defending, said Karl Oyston had a letter from the Environment Agency confirming the deposit of composting material was permitted at the farm.
Oyston had believed soil was composting material and he understood only soil from the football club site was being tipped at the farm.
Mr Woosnam added: “It was an honest and mistaken belief. He later found out waste other than soil had been put at the farm.”
Blackpool FC chairman Karl Oyston has been convicted of illegally dumping waste from the building of a new stand in a field.
Oyston and two companies he is a director of were each fined £12,000 by Blackpool magistrates who also ordered costs of £5,213 and the £15 victims’ surcharge to be paid.
Oyston, a 45-year-old father-of-seven, of Claughton Hall, Lancaster, pleaded guilty to two breaches of laws made to protect the environment.
He admitted that as a director of the companies he consented in the commission by the companies of breaching environmental law by tipping waste without a permit at Whyndyke Farm, Peel, between March 2009 and April 2010.
Promenade Construction Limited and Closelink Limited, whose addresses were given as Blackpool Football Club, Seasiders Way, each admitted one breach of environmental law.
Nicola Watson, prosecuting for the Environment Agency, said the case concerned the illegal deposit of significant quantities of commercial waste at Whyndyke Farm, which Closelink Limited had bought in 2004.
Environment officers visited the farm in February 2010 after receiving a tip-off rubbish was illegally being tipped there.
They found 15 to 20 mounds of waste which included soil, rocks wood and plastic. A large area of waste measuring 20 metres by 20 metres had also been flattened into a pad.
At their second visit in April that year more waste had been dumped.
There were 30 to 40 mounds of about 18 to 20 tons each, which consisted of concrete, plastic, wood and soil.
The prosecutor added that the waste had been dumped at the farm as the result of constructing Blackpool Football Club’s South stand and Oyston had consented to the two companies allowing the tipping of the waste at the farm without a permit.
John Woosnam, defending, said Karl Oyston had a letter from the Environment Agency confirming the deposit of composting material was permitted at the farm.
Oyston had believed soil was composting material and he understood only soil from the football club site was being tipped at the farm.
Mr Woosnam added: “It was an honest and mistaken belief. He later found out waste other than soil had been put at the farm.”