Unlicensed Skip Fine

A BYNEA skip company has been fined by Carmarthen magistrates for putting an unlicensed skip in a Llanelli lane.

Skip Solutions Ltd manager Gary Samuel pleaded guilty on behalf of the company to an offence contrary to Section 139 Highways Act 1980.

The court was told that two Carmarthenshire County Council environmental enforcement officers were in a lane to the rear of Albert Street, Llanelli, in response to a complaint from the Street Works section of the county council regarding an unlicensed builder’s skip being deposited in the lane. The skip had no identification markings.

The householder provided the details of Skip Solutions. The company failed to reply to a letter from the council and on the phone denied having received the letter and said it had no record of putting a skip there. When told it had to be removed by 4pm that day the company said if it belonged to them it would be taken away.

Later that day, an environmental enforcement officer returned to the area and the builder’s skip had been removed, the court heard.

The householder gave the council a statement the skip had not been supplied with lights and that the company had assured him that they would have the relevant permit to place the skip on the highway.

Gary Samuel confirmed that he was the manager of Skip Solutions Ltd. He confirmed that the skip belonged to the company and that they had removed the skip from Albert Street. He stated that it was an oversight by one of his employees.

Skip Solutions Ltd, of Taybrite, Bynea, was fined £360 and ordered to pay £100 prosecution costs.