An ecologist says it will take 20 to 30 years for a stretch of River Lugg in Herefordshire to recover after being damaged by a local farmer.

John Price was jailed in 2023 for illegally removing tonnes of gravel from the riverbed to build a road and horse yard at his home and tearing out 71 trees.

He was ordered to pay £600,000 and to restore the damage he had done.

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[–] 7 points 5 months ago*

Why only £600,000? Surely replacing everything, the hours watching and monitoring, and whatever other work would need to be done to restore it as it was, on top of any fine for the destruction and vandalism that he had done, would amount to more than £600,000.

EDIT - It says here that he was fined over a million pounds. https://www.herefordtimes.com/news/26042822.new-photos-river-lugg-site-farmer-john-price-jailed/

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