What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
Landlord Jack Collins has been in court again for the poor state of his Beeston properties. This time he will be £20,000 out of pocket after failing to protect the safety of his tenants in a house in multiple occupation (HMO) on Sefton Avenue. Collins appeared at Leeds Magistrates Court
Via Cllr Kim Groves: Another successful prosecution at Leeds Magistrates this week by our team. Dwaine Martin, a landlord from Bradford, flytipped this from a property he has in Beeston onto a Belle Isle street. This has cost him £4,500. Evidence and witness statements were gathered and
Two residents from south Leeds are the latest to feel the full force of the council’s legal powers to tackle flytipping. A woman from Hunslet and a man from Belle Isle both appeared before Leeds magistrates on Monday 18 April for offences under section 33 of the Environmental Protection Act
A Leeds man has learned the hard way that business and flytipping do not make good bedfellows. Jonathan Jeffers of Fenton Place, Middleton, pleaded and was found guilty of dumping waste at Leeds Magistrates court last week. Jeffers was fined £600 and ordered to pay costs of £667.86 plus