{"id":565,"date":"2017-12-27T17:15:20","date_gmt":"2017-12-27T17:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abbeyviews.com\/wordpress\/?p=565"},"modified":"2018-01-01T17:16:36","modified_gmt":"2018-01-01T17:16:36","slug":"park-and-dump-fly-tipper-fined","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abbeyviews.com\/wordpress\/?p=565","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Park and dump\u2019 fly tipper fined"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"color: #808080;\">The city council has successfully prosecuted a fly tipper who covered a Gloucester car park with illegally dumped rubbish.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\">Council officers discovered an \u201cextremely large amount\u201d of waste covering almost the entire area of the car park, off Matson Lane.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\">The parking area is opposite a primary school and used by visitors to nearby Matson Park.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\">Officers were acting on complaints from residents, and carried out an extensive operation to gather evidence, which led to the successful prosecution this month.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\">The individual pleaded guilty, and was fined \u00a3500, plus costs of \u00a3300 and victim surcharge of \u00a350. The sentencing took into account his financial and personal circumstances.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\">Cllr Richard Cook, cabinet member for the environment at Gloucester City Council, said: \u201cWe take the issue of fly tipping very seriously. This selfish act robs the local community of decent and safe public spaces, and the clear-up operation takes up time and resources that could be spent on improving local facilities. It will not be tolerated.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\">\u201cI would like to remind residents to check that anyone who disposes of waste on their behalf has a waste carriers\u2019 license \u2013 otherwise they could end up being fined.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The city council has successfully prosecuted a fly tipper who covered a Gloucester car park with illegally dumped rubbish. Council officers discovered an \u201cextremely large amount\u201d of waste covering almost the entire area of the car park, off Matson Lane. The parking area is opposite a primary school and used by visitors to nearby Matson [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abbeyviews.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abbeyviews.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abbeyviews.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abbeyviews.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abbeyviews.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=565"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.abbeyviews.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":566,"href":"https:\/\/www.abbeyviews.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565\/revisions\/566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abbeyviews.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abbeyviews.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abbeyviews.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}