A Llanelli woman has been given a 12-month conditional discharge after building waste was left in a back lane.
Helga Mathias, aged 60, from Five Roads, pleaded guilty to an offence contrary to Section 33 of the Environmental Protection Act 1990 at Carmarthen Magistrates Court.
The court heard that on April 16 earlier this year council environmental enforcement officers found a large quantity of building waste in the rear lane off Woodend Road and Swansea Road, Llanelli.
The officers spoke to a resident at an address in Swansea Road who informed them that the waste had been deposited in the lane by her landlady Helga Mathias.
During interview she told the officers that a builder had been contracted to insulate the property and she had placed the waste in the lane ready for him to remove. She had gone on holiday the following day so had no idea that it had not been cleared until after she had returned.
Mathias was also ordered to pay £347 prosecution costs and a £12 victim surcharge.
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