{"id":497,"date":"2025-06-02T12:11:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-02T12:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/textosbreves.com\/?p=497"},"modified":"2025-06-03T11:40:37","modified_gmt":"2025-06-03T11:40:37","slug":"hackney-restaurant-fined-20000-after-nine-fly-tipping-incidents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/textosbreves.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/02\/hackney-restaurant-fined-20000-after-nine-fly-tipping-incidents\/","title":{"rendered":"Hackney restaurant fined \u00a320,000 after nine fly-tipping incidents"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-beyondwords-marker=\"8294ecc5-97f3-44b8-8bd0-bcb031486bd3\" data-beyondwords-player=\"true\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<h4><img loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-523831 size-full lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" alt=\"Hackney Council\" width=\"860\" height=\"516\" data-src=\"https:\/\/textosbreves.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/03a39d1b55644b0185bfd0432f0986e5-1.png\"><\/h4>\n<h4>A Chinese restaurant in Hackney has been fined almost \u00a320,000 after being caught fly-tipping on \u2018nine separate occasions\u2019.<\/h4>\n<p>Facing Heaven, a vegan Chinese restaurant, ignored a warning issued after the first offence was committed in January 2023, Hackney Council said.<\/p>\n<p>At Thames Magistrates\u2019 Court in April, the restaurant owner was prosecuted for fly-tipping on nine separate occasions whilst failing to have proper waste disposal measures in place.<\/p>\n<p>The owner was ordered to pay \u00a319,400, including \u00a316,500 in fines, plus the full legal costs of \u00a3900 and the maximum victim surcharge of \u00a32,000.<\/p>\n<p>The judge concluded that the business owner knowingly committed the offences, given they had been issued with a duty of waste disposal notice by Hackney Council beginning in 2023 and continued to fly-tip up until October 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Cllr Sarah Young, Cabinet Member for Climate Change, Environment and Transport said: \u201cSelfish actions from an irresponsible local business are an insult to all of our efforts \u2013 they force local council taxpayers to pick up the bill for removing waste that has been illegally at a time when budgets are severely stretched.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe only move to enforcement where residents or businesses fail to work with us and deliberately dump rubbish and then we will take action.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe welcome the significant fine issued to this business, which will act as a deterrent to everyone about the severe consequences if they fail to dispose of their waste properly and responsibly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ciwm.co.uk\/ciwm\/membership\/ciwm\/membership\/why-join-us.aspx?utm_source=partner_site&amp;utm_medium=article&amp;utm_campaign=MayCIWMMemberBanner\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-86763 size-full lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" alt=\"\" width=\"860\" height=\"115\" data-src=\"https:\/\/textosbreves.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/CIWM-325-Top-100-Circular-Banner-575-x-77.png\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.circularonline.co.uk\/news\/hackney-restaurant-fined-20000-after-nine-fly-tipping-incidents\/\">Hackney restaurant fined \u00a320,000 after nine fly-tipping incidents<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.circularonline.co.uk\">Circular Online<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 A Chinese restaurant in Hackney has been fined almost \u00a320,000 after being caught fly-tipping on \u2018nine separate occasions\u2019. Facing Heaven, a vegan Chinese restaurant, ignored a warning issued after the first offence was committed in January 2023, Hackney Council said. At Thames Magistrates\u2019 Court in April, the restaurant owner was prosecuted for fly-tipping on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":499,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/textosbreves.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/textosbreves.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/textosbreves.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/textosbreves.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/textosbreves.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=497"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/textosbreves.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":501,"href":"https:\/\/textosbreves.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497\/revisions\/501"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/textosbreves.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/textosbreves.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/textosbreves.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/textosbreves.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}