Asbestos dumped on pavement during church demolition.
Construction Enquirer, the UK information portal that is fast becoming our preferred source of construction news, is reporting that a property developer has been fined after shocked safety inspectors found demolition rubble containing asbestos spilling out onto a pavement during work to knock-down an old church in Snodland, Kent.
HSE inspectors were acting on a tip-off from a worried member of the public who alerted them to the bodged demolition project.
Maidstone Magistrates’ Court heard the site was owned by Bernard Berry of Berry Estates Development Limited who were also carrying out the demolition of the building.
On 23 April 2010, two HSE inspectors attended the site and discovered the majority of the building had already been demolished but debris containing asbestos was blocking the pavement on one side and had also spilled out onto the pavement on the other side.
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