A 63-year-old skip hire operator has been hit with a costs bill of £11,000 after he ran an unauthorised waste site on a farm in Yorkshire.
Robert Deacon was prosecuted by the Environment Agency over his activities at Old Wood Farm in High Eldwick near Bingley, and on Tuesday a judge at Bradford Crown Court ordered him to do 200 hours unpaid work as part of a one-year community order. Recorder Andrew Dallas said Deacon had been prosecuted as “an absolute last resort” by the Agency and had ended up at court because he was “too pig-headed”.
” Recorder Dallas said people did not expect to have unlicensed and illegal operations going on in their countryside and Deacon had “cocked a snook” at the authorities for years. Deacon admitted two charges of operating a regulated waste operation otherwise than in accordance with an environmental permit covering periods between 2018 and 2021 and June 2023 and April 2024.
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