Aspley Guise landowners fined for abusing allotment land
Two owners of land at Gypsy Lane, Aspley Guise* have been fined more than £1,400 after failing to comply with an enforcement notice issued by Central Bedfordshire Council to clear allotment land of building materials and metal containers. The landowners, Mr Paul Hughes and Mrs Helen Hughes, Directors of HPH Estates Ltd, were served with an enforcement notice in October 2019, by Council enforcement officers, because their land which is meant to be used as an allotment had instead been used to store building materials and storage containers, which goes against planning regulation for allotment land. To comply with the notice all of the items should have been cleared from the land by the end of January 2020. Enforcement officers liaised with the landowners during 2020 and some clearance of the site did take place, but two large metal storage containers, as well as some plant equipment, remained. A final warning was issued for full compliance to be achieved by August 2020, but after a si