{"id":554944,"date":"2026-04-28T11:26:42","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T11:26:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/554944\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T11:26:42","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T11:26:42","slug":"man-fined-for-fly-tipping-at-football-club-near-watford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/554944\/","title":{"rendered":"Man fined for fly-tipping at football club near Watford"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A man has been fined after a football club had to postpone its match due to fly-tipping &#8220;on an organised scale&#8221; in its car park.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 37-year-old, from Essex, who cannot be named for legal reasons, pleaded guilty at Luton Magistrates Court to fly-tipping at Oxhey Jets Football Club in Altham Way, near Watford, on 6 January last year, Three Rivers District Council said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It added that the conviction came after its environmental enforcement team traced one of the tips to a household in Essex. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The man was ordered to pay \u00a31,000 in compensation, a fine of \u00a3200 for depositing at a location without an environmental permit and a victim&#8217;s surcharge of \u00a380, the council said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has been fined after a football club had to postpone its match due to fly-tipping &#8220;on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":554945,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-554944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=554944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554944\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/554945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}