Landowner fined £3,000 for his car ‘graveyard’
TURNING an agricultural field in St Peter’s into a ‘graveyard’ for cars, tyres and broken pots resulted in a £3,000 fine for defendant Matthew Le Page.
The 52-year-old, of La Balise, Rue de la Viltole, Torteval, had initially denied two charges of ignoring compliance notices, that were issued by the planners to clear the site.
But at the 11th hour of the trial in the Magistrate’s Court, after all the evidence for both sides had been heard, he changed his plea to guilty on both counts.
The prosecution case, which was heard at an earlier hearing, was that between June and November 2016 Le Page was told in a compliance notice to permanently remove all vehicles, materials and items associated with a gardening contractor business from the field on Rue de L’Eclet, St Peter’s.
