A CARNFORTH business has been fined £3,000 for the illegal dumping and burning of waste on land at Yealand Conyers.

Phil Rogerson Ltd of Preston Street admitted the two offences when they appeared at Lancaster Magistrates Court and they were ordered to pay £473 costs.

Matt Lockett, prosecuting for the Environment Agency, told the court that on January 10 this year an officer had visited land at Yealand Conyers which was formally known as Pye Motors.

The officer, saw a pile of about 20 cubic metres of controlled waste including plastic drain pipes, concrete , bags of sand, cement, wood, soil, plasterboard and ceramic tiles.

A second pile of waste had been burned.

A check with the Environment Agency database confirmed the premises did not have a waste management licence.

Such a licence is needed to deposit, treat or dispose of waste on land.

During an interview in February Phil Rogerson, a director of Phil Rogerson Ltd, said he had taken waste from his business to the site.

The defendant also admitted he had burned waste on the site.

The court heard that the dumping of controlled waste on unlicensed land had the potential to cuase harm and that burning controlled waste could cause noxious, polluting fumes and gases to enter the atmosphere.