Skip hire firm is hit with £1,800 bill over planning rules breach
A WASTE management company has been convicted for storing skips and waste on land against planning rules.
A1 Skip Hire Limited, on Holme Road in Clayton-le-Moors, was given repeated warnings and breach notices by Lancashire County Council over a five-year period for failing to comply with planning conditions.
The firm was hauled before Burnley Magistrates Court last week, where it pleaded guilty to failing to comply with a breach of conditions notice served in June 2012.
They were fined £1,000 and ordered to pay a £200 victim surcharge and £598.32 costs.
Planning permission was granted in May 2009 for empty skips and skips containing processed waste to be stored within a specific area of the site.
A1 Skip Hire was also required to carry out landscaping work – a condition later upheld by the planning inspectorate after an appeal in July 2010.
However, repeated visits to the land by council staff found the company in breach of the conditions with skips being stored in the area designated for landscaping.
In June 2012 they were given a six-day final notice to comply. Planning officers said ignoring the requirements was having a ‘detrimental impact’ on the Green Belt and was a ‘potential hazard’ for users of a nearby footpath because of the movement of HGVs from one side of Holme Road to the other.