Charles Willard, 41, of Priors Lease Lane, Hambrook and Callan Wood, 35, of Town Cross Avenue, Bognor Regis received suspended sentences for their roles in an illegal waste transfer station at a site in Chichester.

Willard operated a waste transfer station without environmental permits, while Wood allowed the site to operate within Appledram Business Park, which is owned by the company he managed.

Anyone wishing to carry out a waste operation can only do so in accordance with an environmental permit granted under the Environmental Permitting Regulations unless a waste operation is exempt.

For an operation to be exempt, an ‘exemption’ must be applied for, and certain conditions need to be met. Neither an exemption nor a permit was in place for the activities taking place on site.

Guilty

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