Lincoln man prosecuted after waste dumped in children’s play area
A Lincoln man who allowed household waste including a baby bath to be dumped in a children’s play area has become the latest person to be prosecuted for fly-tipping by the City of Lincoln Council. The council has issued 13 fixed penalty notices since November, and seen through two successful prosecutions at court. Last month, Anthony Eden, 26,…
A Lincoln man who allowed household waste including a baby bath to be dumped in a children’s play area has become the latest person to be prosecuted for fly-tipping by the City of Lincoln Council.
The council has issued 13 fixed penalty notices since November, and seen through two successful prosecutions at court.
Last month, Anthony Eden, 26, of Coleridge Gardens, was ordered to pay £650 by magistrates after he admitted failing in his duty to make sure waste was properly disposed of. He was fined £120 and ordered to pay £500 costs and a £30 victims’ surcharge at Lincoln Magistrates’ Court.
The fly-tip in Coleridge Gardens play area was discovered in March 2016, when it was reported to City of Lincoln Council.
The items were found in a children’s play area near to his home.
Officers found a considerable amount of domestic waste, including two mattresses, a broken cot, a baby bath, a rotating clothes drier, loose waste and cardboard, toys, two large shopping ‘bags for life’ and around 10 split black bin liners.
Among the waste officers found delivery slips identifying an address in Coleridge Gardens, and invited the residents to attend an interview.
In mitigation, Eden said he had paid two white van men to remove five or six bags of refuse, a baby bath and cardboard, but not the other items that were found. He said he regretted not checking whether the men were licensed to remove waste.
Eden said he had paid two men to dispose of the waste, but has not checked their licences.
Residents have a legal duty, known as the householder’s duty of care, to ensure waste produced on their property is only transferred to an authorised person. Every householder should check any person who takes waste from their home has the proper authority to carry it and dispose of it properly.
Sam Barstow, Service Manager for Public Protection and Anti-Social Behaviour, said: “Not only is fly-tipping unsightly, but it can be dangerous to wildlife and to children, especially in the two instances we have taken to court, where waste was dumped on a public footpath and in a children’s play area. It’s also likely to attract vermin.
“The problem with fly tips is that dumping waste encourages others to dump waste and so the problem grows.
“In the last three years we’ve seen a rise in fly tipping in the city – in 2016 we recorded 663 incidents. Cleaning this up costs the council thousands of pounds every year and is an unnecessary burden on taxpayers.
“In the last seven months we’ve issued 13 fixed penalty notices, 10 of which were paid and the rest either will be or have been taken to court, where magistrates issued significant fines and costs.
“We’re continuing to work with the public, especially in hotspot areas, to encourage people to report fly tips. We’ve also made improvements to the way we process investigations and gather evidence to enable us to enforce against fly tipping more effectively.
“These successful notices and prosecutions show that fly tipping in Lincoln will not be tolerated.”
To report fly tipping go to www.lincoln.gov.uk or call 01522 873378.
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A former shoe shop with over six decades of history in Lincoln will transform into a new takeaway if plans are approved by City of Lincoln Council.
Brian Rose on Boultham Park Road closed in March 2019 when the namesake owner retired after 60 years, having worked in the shop since he was just 14-years-old.
Meryem Erol of Skegness submitted a planning application to the city council last week to change the use of the vacant shop to hot food takeaway.
The takeaway would be situated next to Premier Stores and will be called Rixos.
It has not yet been publicly revealed what type of takeaway it will be, but it is understood Meryem Erol is one of the owners of Nemrud Pizza House in Skegness.
All of Lincolnshire’s care homes have now received their first dose of vaccination after meeting their planned target of doing them by the weekend, according to local health bosses.
The NHS vaccination team delivered tens of thousands of vaccinations to all of the 202 elderly homes in the county.
Lincolnshire County Council’s assistant director of public health Tony McGinty said there was just some “mopping up” to do of staff or residents who may have missed their turn due to illness
They will now begin focussing on the thousands of elderly people in the community who cannot access vaccination sites.
Mr McGinty said the news was “incredibly heartening”.
“We know these vaccines are going to help people who come into contact with the virus in the coming months fight it off far more readily, and they will be far less likely to become really ill and, God forbid, die.
“[The team] have done incredibly well, we’re talking tens of thousands of vaccines delivered from the day the first one became available just before Christmas, and we’re not even at the end of January yet.
“It’s been a massive effort by the vaccinators and the care homes, mobilising themselves to get vaccinated.”
Due to the government decision to delay the second dose from 21 days to 12 weeks, the next round of vaccinations is likely to be in April or May, but bosses hope that if the supply situation gets better, it may happen quicker.
However, Mr McGinty said the focus was still on getting first doses to “really vulnerable” people in the first instance.
In a press briefing on Monday, health secretary Matt Hancock said nearly 80% of those aged over 80 had now received their first dose.
Figures released last Thursday said nearly 50,000 had received theirs at the time in Lincolnshire, with 24,253 of those aged over 80.
The 32-year-old man and 30-year-old woman arrested in the murder probe of an 11-year-old boy in Lincoln have both been released on police bail, without any charges.
The man was arrested on suspicion of murder and the woman on suspicion of manslaughter after an incident at a house on Geneva Street on St Giles in Lincoln.
Police were called to the house at 10pm on Friday night, January 22.
The 11-year-old boy was found unwell at the scene and was taken to hospital for treatment.
He was pronounced dead a short time later.
At the time Lincolnshire Police said the death was unexplained and it was treated as murder.
The man and the woman arrested at the weekend were released on police bail on Monday evening.
Lincolnshire Police said in a statement on Monday night:
“Once again, we’d like to remind people that this is an active investigation and that an 11-year-old boy has sadly lost his life.
“Speculative comments are not only deeply upsetting to those involved but can potentially undermine our investigation.
“If you have any information that can help, call 101 or email [email protected] quoting incident 472 of January 22.”
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