£12,000 fine for Cheltenham waste operator for disposal of diesel
What was announced
Judge condemns operator – 'A deliberate and blatant attempt to get around the law.' Penalty over £47,000 includes costs for dangerous disposal of red diesel.
Key points, in the publisher's words
- The operator of a waste site in Cheltenham has been issued a hefty £47,000 fine and costs after deliberately disposing of red diesel from one of its screening machines at its yard in Lower Slaughter in November 2022.
- J. Gilder Earthmoving and Aggregates Ltd appeared in Gloucester crown court on 5 October 2026, represented by its director, Joseph Gilder, to be sentenced for an offence of unlawfully discharging red diesel onto the ground on or before 17 November 2022. The company had already pleaded guilty to the charge at an earlier date.
- On 17 November 2022, there was an unannounced visit byHis Majesty’s Revenue and Customs to the site, to establish whether the company was still using illegal red diesel. Although the site was open for business, and Gilder was present, the inspectors were not initially allowed in. Instead, either Gilder or someone else acting on the company’s behalf emptied red diesel from a scalping screener - a separator for bulky construction waste - to avoid detection.
Figures in this announcement
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- “The operator of a waste site in Cheltenham has been issued a hefty £47,000 fine and costs after deliberately disposing of red diesel from one of its screening machines at its yard in Lower Slaughter in November 2022.”
- “Gilder Earthmoving & Aggregates Ltd was fined £12,000, as well as being ordered to pay costs of £33,610.06 and a £2,000 statutory surcharge.”
- “The Environment Agency has secured almost 250 prosecutions for waste offences across England since 2023, with courts handing out fines of more than £2.2m and nearly 90 custodial or suspended prison sentences.”
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Who and where
People
- Rupert Lowe (MP for Great Yarmouth (Restore Britain)) · more news
UK bodies of power
- Environment Agency (executive non-departmental public body) · more news
- HM Revenue & Customs (UK government department) · more news
Constituencies of the MPs named: Great Yarmouth.
Where this sits in the 10 levels of power
Topics, as GOV.UK files them: Environmental permits, Pollution and environmental quality, Waste and environmental impact.
Receipt
- Original: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/12000-fine-for-cheltenham-waste-operator-for-disposal-of-diesel
- Published 2026-10-26 15:32:19 UTC
- Read by this site 2026-10-26 15:45:15 UTC from GOV.UK
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