A Blyth takeaway and its director have been ordered to pay more than £14,000 after breaching a Prohibition Notice served to prevent sleeping on the premises for a second time.
WCC Food Limited, trading as China Cook, on Waterloo Road in Blyth, and its director, were each ordered to pay £7,280 following a court hearing earlier this month - totalling £14,560. In September 2022, Northumberland Fire and Rescue Service (NFRS) found that the company and its director Zhong Sheng Zhang, 37, from Dene View Drive, Blyth, had breached the Prohibition Notice when sleeping materials were found on the premises.
Both the company and director pleaded guilty and each received fines of £5,000 for breaching the notice. They were also ordered to pay a £2,000 victim surcharge and costs of £280 each, totalling £14,560.
