Salford hotel owner pleads guilty to fire safety breaches
The owner of a hotel in Salford has pleaded guilty to several breaches of fire safety regulations.
Sultan Chaudhry, the owner of the White Lodge Hotel in Cheetham Street West, pleaded guilty to ten breaches of the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 at Manchester Magistrates' Court on April 4th.
Fire safety officers from Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service (GMFRS) discovered a range of fire safety issues at the hotel after a blaze broke out in the premises on April 13th 2011.
Concerns were raised after a guest from the first-floor had to be rescued by crews despite the manager claiming that no one was inside the property.
Officers discovered faulty fire alarms, empty fire extinguishers, inadequate escape routes, no emergency lighting on one escape route and that a fire door had been removed.
There was also no suitable fire risk assessment in place and staff working at the hotel had not received adequate training, prompting officers to slap a prohibition notice on the hotel to prevent people from staying there.
Peter O'Reilly, from GMFRS, said: "This could have been a very serious incident.
"It is unacceptable for a hotel business not to have proper procedures in place and put lives at risk."
Sultan Chaudhry, the owner of the White Lodge Hotel in Cheetham Street West, pleaded guilty to ten breaches of the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 at Manchester Magistrates' Court on April 4th.
Fire safety officers from Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service (GMFRS) discovered a range of fire safety issues at the hotel after a blaze broke out in the premises on April 13th 2011.
Concerns were raised after a guest from the first-floor had to be rescued by crews despite the manager claiming that no one was inside the property.
Officers discovered faulty fire alarms, empty fire extinguishers, inadequate escape routes, no emergency lighting on one escape route and that a fire door had been removed.
There was also no suitable fire risk assessment in place and staff working at the hotel had not received adequate training, prompting officers to slap a prohibition notice on the hotel to prevent people from staying there.
Peter O'Reilly, from GMFRS, said: "This could have been a very serious incident.
"It is unacceptable for a hotel business not to have proper procedures in place and put lives at risk."
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