Blackpole Recycling Limited in Worcester has now entered administration – but only one company is permitted to collect the skips during the ongoing insolvency case.
We have previously reported how skips are dotted about the county, at businesses and on driveways, with some customers asking what will happen to them now the city firm has ceased trading.
KR8 Advisory Limited, the administrators appointed on March 5, have chosen Go Greener Limited to collect the Blackpole Recycling skips as the case goes through the High Court of Justice (Business and Property Courts) of England and Wales.
The skips are now the property of the joint administrators and can be sold by them to pay creditors during the insolvency process.
The only people listed as active directors of Blackpole Recycling are Paul Edwards and Martin Peyton.
We have previously reported how West Mercia Police received a report skips has been stolen from Blackpole Recycling Limited on February 25.
Some of the skips have since been pictured stacked – as many as 100 – at Stone Arrow Farm in Peopleton and others leaving that farm off the A44 Evesham Road on an untaxed and uninsured lorry.
A letter from Mark Blackman, the joint administrator from March 12, reads: “The Joint Administrators have engaged the services of Go Greener Ltd to collect the skip(s) currently held on your premises and to dispose of the waste appropriately and in accordance with approved Environment Agency permits.
“The Administrators have provided this letter as agents for and on behalf of the Company and neither they, their firm, partners, employees, agents, advisers not their representatives shall incur any personal liability whatsoever under or in relation to this letter, the Company’s agreements or in relation to its subject matter.”
The company, registered in Leigh Sinton, near Worcester, is a set up for the treatment and disposal of non-hazardous waste according to Companies House.
At the moment, Blackpole Recycling at Unit 100, Blackpole Trading Estate West, is sealed off behind concrete blocks and alarms placed there by the Environment Agency which imposed a restriction notice after tipping at the site. A convoy of lorries was followed by Peopleton residents from the farm to Blackpole Recycling last month.
The Environment Agency issued Blackpole Recycling with a suspension notice due to piles of wood and plasterboard exceeding safe limits and a failure to maintain fire breaks on February 17.
However, Environment Agency inspections on February 23 and 25 confirmed new waste had been brought onto the site. The waste had been pushed up into a pile around six metres high, both inside and outside of the main shed.
On February 27, the Environment Agency served the operator with a restriction notice, which prohibits access to the site due to the risk of serious pollution.
Enforcement officers have put concrete blocks at the site entrance to support the restriction notice and disrupt any further illegal waste activity.