A FARNHAM builder who fly-tipped building waste on the A331 in Farnborough has been left £1,000 out of pocket after appearing in court.

At Basingstoke Magistrates’ Court on Thursday, April 12, Mark Dunaway of Stoke Hills admitted being in charge of a vehicle and knowingly depositing controlled waste on land beside the south-bound slip road onto the A331 Blackwater Valley Road without having an environmental permit authorising the deposit of waste, contrary to The Environmental Protection Act 1990.

He was fined £480 and ordered to pay a contribution of £472 towards Rushmoor Borough Council’s costs and a £48 victim surcharge.

The court heard that a member of the public spotted Dunaway tipping the building waste, which included an old carpet and a kitchen work surface, on the slip road on April 24, 2017 and notified Surrey Heath Borough Council.

Surrey Heath, having realised the site of the offence fell outside its boundary, handed the evidence, which included a medication bag and invoices from various builders’ merchants, to Rushmoor Borough Council.

The address on the evidence was traced to a man living in Aldershot who told the council that he had given Dunaway the waste from a site he was working on in Camberley and believed that Mark Dunaway was going to dispose of the waste in his skip.

Dunaway admitted the offence when interviewed at the end of May 2017.

Qamer Yasin, head of environmental health and housing at Rushmoor Borough Council, said: “There can never be an excuse to fly-tip.

“It is not only anti-social and an eyesore, but it can be hazardous, and ultimately we all pay if the council has to clear it up.”