From Info4fire.
A 14th century ‘luxury’ wedding venue has paid more than £23,000 after pleading guilty to nine offences under the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005.
Haslington Hall – a Grade 1 listed building near Crewe used as a wedding venue and offering overnight accommodation for guests – was served with a prohibition notice in 1 October 2009.
The notice was lifted on 30 October 2009 after remedial work was completed, but officers discovered that the venue had been used on the weekend of 24 October, while the notice was still in force.In addition to breaching the prohibition notice, Haslington Hall Ltd pleaded guilty on 30 January 2012 at Chester Magistrates Court of failing to:
- make a suitable and sufficient fire risk assessment,
- comply with an enforcement notice,
- provide appropriate fire detectors and alarms,
- ensure that escape routes and exits could be used as quickly and as safely as possible,
- by failing to provide adequate fire resisting doors on the escape routes
- provide adequate and sufficient fire safety training to employees
- provide emergency routes and exits with signage,
- as required provide emergency routes and exits with emergency lighting of adequate intensity
- make and give effect to appropriate arrangements for the effective planning, organisation, control monitoring and review of the preventive and protective measures
"This was an extremely serious case of a business putting people's lives at considerable risk from fire,” said Lee Shears, community fire protection manager for Cheshire Fire and Rescue Service."Fire safety is a key part of good business management and Haslington Hall Ltd showed little or no regard for the safety of their guests or employees.”
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