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A Bynea skip company has been fined by Carmarthen magistrates for putting an unlicensed skip in a Llanelli lane. Skip Solutions Ltd manager Gary Samuel pleaded guilty on behalf of the company to an offence contrary to Section 139 Highways Act 1980. The court was told that two Carmarthenshire County Council environmental enforcement officers were in a lane to the rear of Albert Street, Llanelli, in response to a complaint from the Street Works section of the county council regarding an unlicensed builder’s skip being deposited in the lane. The skip had no identification markings. The householder provided the details of Skip Solutions. The company failed to reply to a letter from the council and on the phone denied having received the letter and said it had no record of putting a skip there. When told it had to be removed by 4pm that day the company said if it belonged to them it would be taken away. Later that day, an environmental enforcement officer returned to the area and the builde...

A Carmarthenshire skip hire firm has been prosecuted for placing skips on the public highway without permission. Pendragon Waste & Skip Hire Limited pleaded guilty at Carmarthen Magistrates Court to four offences contrary to section 139 of the Highways Act 1980. The prosecution was brought by Carmarthenshire County Council. The court heard that skips were placed in Ralph Terrace, Heol Elfed, Iscoed and Gelli Road in Llanelli without the relevant permissions from the council. The company was fined a total of £260 and ordered to pay £551.34 prosecution costs. Chair of the council’s Environment Scrutiny Committee Cllr Jim Jones said “Carmarthenshire County Council is determined to tackle the problem of unlicensed skips. This is important both to ensure safety on the highway and to reduce the risk that waste from those skips will be illegally dumped.” A permit from the council is needed to place a skip on the highway.