Accrington: Rubbish leads to court

An Accrington man who dumped black bags full of rubbish in the alley behind his home was taken to court by the Council recently, where magistrates ordered him to pay almost £1000 in fines and costs. Karl Robert Beaumont was taken to court after dumping bags of rubbish in the alley behind his home in Avenue Parade in contravention of a Council notice which required him to use his wheelie bin.


Cllr Clare Pritchard, Deputy Leader and Cabinet Member for Environmental Health, said; “This is another case of someone ignoring officer’s requests to remove the rubbish they’ve dumped in their neighbourhood. It blights the area for people living nearby and in many cases the rubbish we find is recyclable, there is no need for it to go to landfill. We always take these cases seriously and will pursue people who dump rubbish through the courts where, as in this case, they could end up facing hefty fines and costs.”