Just looked up report,pleaded guilty and will be charged in October I think
River Lugg, Herefordshire
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Cant remember the exact wording but it sounds like it's on Hfd Times website. ....will look later
EA and other drainage board types havent a clue . Mates had the EA out making sure flood release valves work , but so far they havent had the brains to realise that there are flood valves either side of the floodbank. They only oil and clear the one side and havent worked out water should flow in and out the other side. Money wasted is obscene, main person walks the valves and reports back to the workman who then arrive in a fleet of trucks but none of them have so far realised !
they really are some sh1tsAdjourned until october , looks very likely to be costly . I see one farmer who did something similiar got a fine of just over 400k.
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Mitigation? It could be that, in terms of the offence, that on examination of the facts it was likely a jury would have said guilty. A bit like if you're speeding, even with your Mrs dying in the back seat as you zoom to hospital, you're still guilty of speeding. Yet at sentencing they would consider this as mitigation.
We've no idea what has gone on behind the scenes.
We've no idea what has gone on behind the scenes.
Yep, I saw something about that one too.... Biggest proportion of that "cost" was the reinstatement figure though?Adjourned until october , looks very likely to be costly . I see one farmer who did something similiar got a fine of just over 400k
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For what? They have no obligation to maintain rivers, their powers are "discretionary".
The right approach would be to seek judicial review of the decisions leading to the damage but that is a very expensive route.
Why do you hope that?
As a deterrent for others thinking they can do as they please maybe? I hope it's a lot lot bigger that the last time he was fined. Taken to court in 2007 and fined £10,000 for.... Er, illegal river works.
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- Hereford
Perhaps you need to go downstream a bit and ask the villagers who have flooded for yrs on end whether he should be fined or rewarded .......
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Mmmmmmm a quick search on hootbe .....
11 posts .....all about rivers/ pollution ..... a one tracked mind here !!
Absolutely no other input on any other thread !
11 posts .....all about rivers/ pollution ..... a one tracked mind here !!
Absolutely no other input on any other thread !
serf
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Big fine as a deterrent for clearing the waterways of cŕap and helping the flow of water and doing the job the EA should be doing, heard it all now .....
theses folk should be encouraged and rewarded ffs
theses folk should be encouraged and rewarded ffs
Perhaps those that he has saved from flooding will chip in and raise enough to pay for the good work, hopefully encourage others to do what is right in the face of stupidity
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serf
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It's OK the wind is changing direction this afternoon and they will be gone
serf
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You been having PR lessons from hilly
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No point beating about the bush ...say it as it is !You been having PR lessons from hilly
.......it's got me into trouble so many times
........though on the quiet many agree !Perhaps that means he/ she works for the EA,a friend of Packham and never been flooded out due to the incompetence of the EA.
Makes me so annoyed that government agencies very rarely get prosecuted, and even if they do , I doubt an individual employee would have to pay a “fine” out of their own finances, or get the sack.
Know doubt the EA will be able to wriggle out of the “digging the clay out of the bottom of the dyke”, cock up in the Eastern Counties. I expect @hootbe , will think the EA have done no wrong in that situation.
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Is his name r sole!!
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