Environment Agency investigation ends in successful prosecution

Court told large amounts of ash spread over five acres of adjoining land without permit

Sentencing hearing at Nottingham Magistrates on Friday 7 November 2025

At Nottingham Magistrates Court on 7 November 2025, Johnsons Aggregates and Recycling Ltd of Crompton Road, Ilkeston, Derbyshire, were fined £40,000 and ordered to pay costs of £49,886.75.

The company had pleaded guilty at a previous hearing on 19 July 2025.

Ash spread on neighbour’s land

The court was told the Environment Agency started monitoring sites in March 2021 at Hallam Fields Industrial Estate, Ilkeston, due to complaints about dust, odour and noise.

Officers attended land adjacent to the defendant company’s land, they discovered that a large amount of wa

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