11/08/2014

Dungannon Firm Fined £20k Over Planning

A County Tyrone firm has been fined £20,000 after failure to comply with planning procedure.

Glenfort Timber Engineering Ltd., which operates out of a site at 36 Rossmore Road Dungannon, was fined £20,000 at Dungannon Magistrates' Court today.

The Company was found guilty for non compliance with a Department of the Environment (DOE) Planning Enforcement Notice.

The company was also made to pay £440 in legal costs and £10 court costs.

The enforcement notice had ordered the company to cease the use of an agricultural building and yard as a wood products business and remove all equipment and materials from the premises.

(IT/MH)

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