“Completely off the scale” is how the Environment Agency describes two years of mismanagement of waste from housing developments across Suffolk. A judge today called it negligent.

Some five organisations have been fined £70,666 for the huge amount of unpermitted waste stockpiled at two farms between 2016 and 2018.

When the Environment Agency heard about thousands of lorries moving waste along narrow roads in the village of Iken, they soon established more than 121,000 tonnes had been dumped at the two locations, Hill Farm and The Anchorage.

Haulage and waste management firm Nicholls Ltd took the waste to Iken on behalf of East Suffolk Water Management Board, but without the permission from the Environment Agency.

Judge Martyn Levett fined Nicholls, of Kesgrave, £26,666 at Ipswich crown

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