Taylor Wimpey fined £480,000 for polluting Welsh river

By Matilda Battersby 2023-05-09T06:00:00

Evidence of silt being discharged into rivers was found on a number of occasions in 2021

Housebuilder Taylor Wimpey has been fined nearly half a million pounds having been found responsible for multiple incidents of pollution to a Welsh river in 2021.

The construction company was found guilty of one charge of breaching environmental permitting regulations at Cwmbran Magistrates Court on Wednesday and fined £480,000.

The court found that contaminated water was illegally discharged into the River Llwyd from Taylor Wimpey’s Edlogan Wharf site near Pontypool between January and October in 2021.

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