A man from Severn Beach has been ordered to pay more than £1,500 in fines after South Gloucestershire Council prosecuted him for fly-tipping. James Woods, 27, of Riverside Park in Severn Beach, pleaded guilty to the offence of fly-tipping when he appeared at Bristol Magistrates Court on Monday (October 17).
He was ordered to pay a fine of £615, along with £115 in clear up costs, a further £796 in court costs and a £62 victim surcharge, a total of £1,588. The court heard that on February 11, 2022, South Gloucestershire Council’s Environmental Enforcement officers, checking local known fly-tip locations, discovered a number of black household waste refuse bags deposited at the rear of some shops on Gloucester Road North, Filton.
On inspecting the waste, they recovered a letter relating to an address in Brentry in Bristol. Enquiries conducted at that address eventually led them to James Woods, who at the time of the offence was the owner of The Vape Store on Gloucester Road North, which is located within the rank of shops where the waste had been fly-tipped.
