Philip Moore, who ran a landscaping business close to the site, pleaded guilty to two counts of dumping waste without a permit, breaching section 33(1)(a) and (6) of the Environmental Protection Act 1990.
The offences took place on 8 September and 21 October 2022 at Clockcase Lane, King’s Lynn.
On 13 August, King’s Lynn magistrates fined Moore £600 and ordered him to pay £2,000 in costs and a £240 victim surcharge.
Fred Harris, a roofer from Cambridgeshire, admitted dumping waste illegally on Clockcase Lane on 2 March 2023, contrary to the same section of the Environmental Protection Act.
Harris was given a 100-hour unpaid work requirement and must pay £1,000 in costs and a £114 victim surcharge.
Surveillance footage of waste dumping
Clockcase Lane, covering around 15 hectares close to the Great River Ouse, was under covert surveillance by the Environment Agency in 2022 due to other reports of waste crime.
Despite the land being out of bounds under a court order, Moore was filmed on two occasions arriving in a white and grey tipper truck marked Moore’s Groundworks and Landscaping.
In September 2022, he unloaded wooden pallets before leaving. Six weeks later, the same vehicle returned, a passenger unloaded garden waste, and Moore deposited another wooden pallet.
A few months later, Harris arrived at the same site in a white van towing a trailer marked Armour Roofing and Construction.
CCTV from a nearby property showed him offloading household waste onto the muddy track.
Investigation of Clockcase Lane
When questioned by the Environment Agency, Moore claimed he believed Clockcase Lane was a legitimate waste site and had paid a third party £10 for each visit.
Harris similarly told investigators he thought the site was permitted and had paid £100 to gain access.
Phil Henderson, Environment Management Team Leader for East Anglia at the EA, said: “Moore and Harris should have known better as local businessmen producing a lot of waste through their work.
“Both men were negligent in not checking the legality of Clockcase Lane as a waste site.
“We continue to investigate Clockcase Lane.”
A third person is due before King’s Lynn magistrates next May in relation to other alleged dumping at the site in April 2023 and January 2024.
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