Suspended sentence given to Salisbury builder for substandard work
Builder prosecuted by Wiltshire Council
A builder from Salisbury has been prosecuted by Wiltshire Council and given suspended sentence for substandard work and using professional accreditations without authorisation.
Shane Alexander David Rose of Salisbury, a Director of Rose Design Build Maintain Landscape Ltd, was sentenced to nine weeks in prison, suspended for 12 months.
He must also complete 100 hours of Community Service within the next 12 months and pay £4,076 in compensation.
A court heard how Mr Rose had been employed by an Amesbury resident to carry out a garage conversion and extension to his property in the spring of 2017.
The work cost £18,600 and was supposed to include the installation of steel lintels as specified in the building calculations provided by a local structural engineering company.
However, he ignored these specifications and installed pre-stressed concrete lintels instead of steel beams.
A when chartered structural engineers inspected the works they reported that this would have caused, at the very least, large cracks to appear in the masonry above, but could also have resulted in a catastrophic collapse of the wall.
In addition to this, Mr Rose used Environment Agency and the Local Authority Building Control logos on his paperwork without authorisation.
Cllr Ashley O’Neill, Cabinet Member for Public Protection said:
“The substandard work carried out by Mr Rose could have had catastrophic consequences. Our Building Control and Trading Standards teams have worked together to achieve this successful prosecution.
"We would encourage anyone contemplating having building work done by any tradesperson who claims to be a member of a regulatory or trade body, to contact the organisation and check that they are a registered member.”