{"id":2043,"date":"2025-04-03T08:41:23","date_gmt":"2025-04-03T08:41:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/2043\/"},"modified":"2025-04-03T08:41:23","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T08:41:23","slug":"crooked-house-bosss-landfill-company-liquidated-with-debts-of-1-2-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/2043\/","title":{"rendered":"Crooked House boss&#8217;s landfill company liquidated with debts of \u00a31.2 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Himley Environmental, which operated a landfill site next to the pub, has been put into voluntary liquidation following court action over environmental breaches.<\/p>\n<p>At the time of the breaches, the company was controlled by Adam Taylor, who is sole director of the company which bought the Crooked House from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.expressandstar.com\/news\/local-hubs\/wolverhampton\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wolverhampton<\/a>-based pub group Marston&#8217;s in 2023.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/029b2278-d603-4e50-bb7d-d28e2985ef39.jpg\"   loading=\"lazy\" class=\"w-full max-w-none\"\/>South Staffordshire Council said it was very frustrated at the recommendation to postpone the Crooked House public inquiry<\/p>\n<p>The pub in Himley, near <a href=\"https:\/\/www.expressandstar.com\/news\/local-hubs\/dudley\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dudley<\/a>, \u00a0which dated back to 1765, was famous around the world as &#8216;Britain&#8217;s wonkiest pub&#8217; due to the mining subsidence which left it 4ft lower on the one side than the other.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Himley Environmental operated the landfill site next to the pub.<\/p>\n<p>A final statement of affairs issued by the liquidator showed that the company had debts totalling \u00a31,222,312 \u00a0&#8211; including \u00a3679,616 owed to the Environment Agency.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/cd8f4799-4318-44e7-a167-f10ff8f5bcb8.jpg\"   loading=\"lazy\" class=\"w-full max-w-none\"\/>The Crooked House site is next to Himley Environmental&#8217;s landfill operation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Himley Environmental, which operated a landfill site next to the pub, has been put into voluntary liquidation following&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2044,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[51,1354,379,12,1355,604,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-2043","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-dudley","10":"tag-local-hubs","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-south-staffordshire","13":"tag-staffordshire","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114273142914419919","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2043\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}