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Belfast property company fined £500 for waste offence

DFM Developments of Mount Charles, Belfast, was today fined £500 plus £38 court costs at Dungannon Magistrates’ Court for a breach of waste management legislation.
~ Monday, 14 March 2011

Northern Ireland Environment Agency officials investigated a site adjacent to Legane Road, Aughnacloy, owned by DFM Developments, on 20 October 2009 where a quantity of construction and demolition material was deposited.

Further visits in January and May 2010 confirmed the waste was still on site. Fifty tonnes of mixed waste was identified on site together with evidence of burning. The site did not have a waste management licence or an exemption to deposit or store controlled waste.

Notes to editors:

  1. DFM Developments was charged under Article 4(1)(b) of the Waste and Contaminated Land Order (Northern Ireland) 1997. The charge related to the deposit, treating, keeping and disposal of controlled waste, or knowingly causing or knowingly permitting controlled waste to be treated, kept or disposed of in or on any land except under and in accordance with a waste management licence.
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