The boss of a Stirling fried snacks and ice-cream shop is to face trial accused of “failing to abate” the smell of cooking the Spanish-style treat churros.
Company director Richard Wilmot is accused of allowing “the smell arising from cooking fumes” to come out of a grille on the rear wall of the shop, ChurrosnChill in Borestone Crescent, thereby “causing a significant nuisance” to people living in a flat above.
It is alleged that despite being served by Stirling Council with an abatement notice, Wilmot, 31, “failed to abate said nuisance and prevent its recurrence”.
At a preliminary hearing at Stirling Sheriff Court yesterday (Tuesday) Wilmot, of Airdrie, North Lanarkshire, director of ChurrosnChill Ltd, pleaded not guilty to annoying the occupants of the flat, named in court papers as Don and Carol Ann Richie, by not complying with the notice, contrary to the 1990 Environment Protection Act.
Solicitor Virgil Crawford, defending, said: “It’s something of an unusual charge.”
Summary Sheriff Rory Bannerman ordered Wilmot to return to court for trial on November 10.
