There were a lot of charges in the notes including failing to comply with a stop notice.
It is the general creeping of the woke society and rules that to country people would just sort out.
Think about it another way re water companies. They used to be govt before being privatised and the govt probably knew that with house building and population increase the sewers weren't gonna keep up without serious investment. So let them be privatised and the problem ain't their's anymore but just fine them now and again to look like their bothered.
You have a very warped idea of how Justice works in England and of the honesty and integrity of those put in a position to ruin peoples lives. Well next time you open a bottle of wine just look at the implement your using and think what it has in common with the typical English Judge.
You really dont get it. There has been a national policy for centuries its called Riparian rights of landowners which should be enforced by the courts but instead new rules whereby state ownership of the land by SSSI takes precedence over legal ownership and title to the land. Its similar to what has been happening in Holland but at least the Dutch had the decency to buy out the land to take control whereas here its just decreed by a new SSSI governed by the unaccountable NE.
lol.
No fella you don't get it he committed offences Many of which you keep ignoring) and pleaded guilty, I couldn't care less about your Riparian rights, and it seems his lawyers didn't either. Your problem is with the judge not me.
Absolutely lock them up the same as you would a farmer.
but they don't get locked up , moreover they are allowed to continue disposing of sewage and so called treated grey water down the rivers and into the bays and our field. its excepted practice.
eh where does the taxpayer come into it?
I know they don't, but they should.
You fail to recognise that in the UK the EA is both policeman and prosecutor. It chooses to prosecute where it is easy ie. Small business’s who cannot afford million's to pay barristers, and ignore the very large public corporations who not only can, but do, as it is at no cost to the bosses who run it, just the poor investors and of course customers who pay the billsI know they don't, but they should.
OK the water customers (it's added into the rates here I think) my point being the fine just gets passed on.
I suppose if you spent millions upgrading everything your customers end up paying anyway
Every convicted criminal in history was badly advised by their solicitor...
Yes I realise the desperation they had to secure a conviction dragging up an "offence" from 2007 of creating a dam so that he could water his spuds. The fact it was actually a mill leat which the miller would control the level of by raising or lowering the paddle of the dam in order to operate the mill in the past was irrelevant. Obviously if water was extracted for spuds then an abstraction licence would have been needed but I cannot see any mention of that so maybe he did have the licence. Funny how most legal things have a statute time limit imposed of 6 years but when it suits the courts they just ignore it.
Stute of time limits are basically about fraud and civil cases of claims rather than any other crimes
Come on JP had the kit and no how to get the job done, correctly I might add, if the EA had done the job it would of turned into the biggest spend of tax payers money, and the job would of lasted 6 months, and at the end of it all, you would not of known where they had been, because they would of been inspecting every bucket full for pond life .
I have personal experience of how justice works in Scotland
They did not have to "drag" anything up - Mr Price entered a guilty plea to all charges.
"He realistically concedes four things. Firstly, that by his guilty pleas he is in peril of a custodial sentence. Secondly, that by his actions, Mr Price has caused considerable damage. Thirdly, that it will take many years for this stretch of river to recover. Finally, that Mr Price knew he needed permission to carry out this work and that therefore his actions were
