Blackpool pier owners sentenced over refurbishing asbestos lined arcade while open to the public
gill fallows • Aug 20, 2020
Owners of Blackpool pier arcade sentenced over asbestos refurbishment while still open to public
Around 600 workers and members of the public were potentially exposed to asbestos fibres from Blackpool's South Pier after the pier’s directors, Peter Sedgwick Jr, 39, and Fiona Blaylock, 44, cut corners on cost to remove a circus style roof above the main landward arcade.
To save spending £17,000 for a genuine firm to do the work - which would have meant losing six days trading - the duo instructed three untrained and ill equipped employees to do the work in disposable body suits.
Preston Crown Court heard they had pulled the material away with a crow bar and by hand, filling six bin bags of waste, and used a Hoover to clean asbestos from a carpet after the removal of the roof.
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