A Westbury man has been fined £500 after being caught on CCTV fly-tipping tyres in a Westbury car park.
Roger Burgess, of Warminster Road, Westbury, appeared at Salisbury Magistrates Court on Thursday 24th April and pleaded guilty to fly-tipping tyres in Warminster Road Car Park on 2nd November 2023.
Wiltshire Council’s Environmental Enforcement Team received a fly-tipping report from Warminster Town Council, which also monitors CCTV in Westbury and had captured a man fly-tipping the tyres on its cameras.
The footage showed a male arriving in the car park in a Vauxhall Astra and unloading objects from the rear of the vehicle. A second vehicle later joins, and the occupants are seen exchanging objects between the two vehicles. As the Astra leaves the car park, dumped tyres are visible at the rear of the car park space.
Officers traced the vehicle back to Mr Burgess, with the second vehicle traced to another owner, who cannot be named. When the second owner provided evidence that the fly-tipped tyres belonged to Mr Burgess, he was interviewed under caution and gave the excuse that he had removed the tyres to unload other items and then forgot about them when he left. He was issued with a fixed penalty notice of £400 (the maximum penalty fine at the time), which was not paid and therefore resulted in conviction in court.
Meanwhile, Mr Burgess was fined a total of £500.
Sam Howell, Director of Highways and Transport for Wiltshire Council, said, “This is a great example of partnership working, and our thanks go to Warminster Town Council and their CCTV team for spotting this incident and reporting it to us. Our Environmental Enforcement officers will act on any information or evidence of environmental crime in Wiltshire.”
