£20k Fine For Belfast Contractor

A Belfast skip company was fined a total of £20,000 today (16 March 2009) for breaches of waste management legislation.

Sean McStravick, director of Colin Glen Contractors (also trading as CG Skips), of Colinglen Road, Belfast, pleaded guilty at Belfast Crown Court to eight charges of depositing and treating controlled waste on land without a Waste Management Licence, under the Waste and Contaminated Land (NI) Order 1997.


Between 2004 and 2007 Colin Glen Contractors had been operating an unlicensed landfill site at Glenside Road, Hannahstown, where large quantities of mixed construction and skip waste had been dumped and treated.

Environmental Crime officers from the NI Environment Agency (formerly Environment and Heritage Service) visited the site between November 2004 and October 2007, where, on several occasions, they observed vehicles registered to Colin Glen Contractors dumping loads of mixed skip waste and construction waste on unlicensed land.

They also observed heavy plant and machinery owned by Colin Glen Contractors treating and compacting waste on the site during the same period.

(PR/JM)