Mr Samuel Maginty, trading as A1 Skips, of Crumlin Road Belfast was today fined £2,500 (plus £103 costs) after pleading guilty to one charge of treating, keeping, and disposing of waste at a site on the junction of the Belfast Road and Ballyhill Road at Nutts Corner.
During an inspection on 25 May 2005, Environment and Heritage Service officers discovered an illegal waste transfer station where waste was being stored, sorted and disposed of. The site took up part of the abandoned Ballyhill Road left over from the junction upgrade. Mr Maginty had carried out earthworks to extend the site using controlled wastes.
Notes to Editors:
- Mr Maginty was charged under Article 4(1)(b) of The Waste and Contaminated Land (Northern Ireland) Order 1997
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