Businessman is fined £450 for misleading application

A BUSINESSMAN has been fined after he failed to disclose an environmental conviction on an application form.

The Loanhead skip hire operator was fined 450 at Edinburgh Sheriff Court for deliberately providing misleading information on an application to register as a waste carrier.

James M Cunningham pled guilty to knowingly providing information which was false or misleading, while registering to be a carrier of controlled waste. Mr Cunningham completed an application to register as a carrier of controlled waste and submitted this to Scottish Environment Protection Agency(SEPA). He signed and dated a declaration stating that the information on the form had been checked, by him, and was true. The application form was processed by SEPA's registry staff and Mr Cunningham was granted a Waste Carriers Certificate.

It later became clear that Mr Cunningham had not disclosed a 2006 conviction for depositing waste on land.