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Owner of Stoke Rochford Hall admits health and safety breaches




The owner of Stoke Rochford Hall has admitted a number of breaches of health and safety at the hotel including failure to protect employees properly against hazardous substances and failing to report an employee's accident in time.

Talash Hotels No 6 Ltd appeared at Lincoln Magistrates’ Court where it indicated guilty pleas on seven health and safety charges and one improvement notice at the Stoke Rochford hotel. The owner will appear at the magistrates court on March 12 next year for sentencing.

The owner is due to appear for sentencing at Lincoln Magistrates Court on March 12, 2020.

Stoke Rochford Hall
Stoke Rochford Hall

The Leamington Spa-based group, owned by brothers and business partners Sanjay and Ravi Kathuria, originally bought the lease for the hotel in 2016 for an undisclosed sum.

The brothers have now put the 97 bedroom grade one listed hotel up for sale together with its entire portfolio of nine hotels with a guide price of offers in excess of £29.5m.

Talash Hotels pleaded guilty to the following health and safety breaches:

Failing to send a report in June 2017 to the enforcing authority within 15 days of an accident to one of its employees who was injured at the Stoke Rochford hotel.

Between March 1 and April 26 2017, it failed to provide employees with suitable and sufficient information and training, being an employer who undertakes work which is liable to expose employees to hazardous substances.

Between March 1 and April 26 2018, it failed to ensure that the exposure of employees to hazardous substances was either prevented or adequately controlled in that sodium bisulphate and chlorine were stored together and hand dosing of chemicals in the spa was occurring without appropriate protective equipment.

Between May 1 and September 7 2018, it failed to prevent a danger in that exposed cabling and cable connections in the bathroom of 10 Woodland Lodge presented a risk of electric shock.

Two charges, between February 2017 and July 2018, of failing to ensure that persons not in its employment were not exposed to risks to their health and safety.

Between September 16, 2018, and January 26, 2019, it failed to ensure that persons not in its employment were not exposed to risks to their health and safety.

It also pleaded to guilty to contravening an improvement notice on October 17, 2017, which required it to carry out works required in an electrician's report and, where work was required, produce satisfactory documentation.

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