A café owner has been fined more than £2,000 for fly-tipping near a south Bucks beauty spot.

Nabil Naja, 55, of Newark Crescent, Park Royal, London, said two unidentified men had asked if they could take six sacks of waste wiring away as they had value as scrap metal. They later dumped it in woodland along Park Lane, Burnham, near Burnham Beeches.

He said he initially refused but eventually gave in and allowed them to take the waste away. He did not pay them, made no checks on their status as a registered waste carrier, and had no paperwork or receipt as evidence of the transaction, which meant it was impossible to trace the men.

Naja was caught after officers from the Waste Partnership for Buckinghamshire several deposits of illegally dumped waste in Park Lane, and found details in the material that part of the waste had come from a café in Wembley operated by Nabbil Ltd.

Naja was fined £368 and Nabbil Ltd was fined £1,000 for duty of care failures regarding the waste. He was also ordered to pay clean-up costs of £622 and a victim surcharge of £100, making the total to pay £2,090.

South Bucks District Council Cabinet Member for Environment Luisa Sullivan, speaking on behalf of the Waste Partnership for Buckinghamshire, said: “This dumping really blighted a beautiful woodland area.

“It is crucial that both householders and businesses take measures to check the credentials of a waste carrier properly and to get the appropriate paperwork.

“Without this, the waste producer will be held responsible if the waste is dumped illegally, and may end up in court.

“The SCRAP Fly Tipping campaign we've adopted recently in Bucks provides helpful advice on complying with these obligations.”