Landowner Ordered to Pay Highest Ever Illegal Felling Fine
A Leicestershire landowner is to pay £268,751 after illegal tree felling Landowner Ordered to Pay Highest Ever Illegal Felling Fine A landowner has been ordered to pay fines and costs totalling £268,751 following the illegal felling of trees after an investigation by the Forestry Commission. On 28 January 2026, at Leicester Magistrates’ Court, the landowner was sentenced, after pleading guilty to failing to comply with an Enforcement Notice that was served following unlawful felling of mixed...
