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Builder jailed for causing partial collapse of Brighton house

by Frank le Duc
Wednesday 2 May, 2018 at 1:13AM
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Collapsed Over Street house to be rebuilt

A Brighton builder has been jailed for causing the partial collapse of a house that he was working on.

1 Over Street in Brighton

Glen Peters, 57, of The Brow, Woodingdean, undermined the structural integrity of the house in Over Street, in the North Laine area of Brighton.

Peters, trading as Brow Builders, which has since been closed by the authorities, did the damage digging out the basement of the house.

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) said: “He then failed to act on the advice of a structural engineer on how to remedy the situation, resulting in the gable wall partially collapsing and the ground floor collapsing into the basement.”

Neighbours were evacuated when the collapse happened in February 2015, prompting an investigation by the HSE.

It resulted in Peters appearing at Hove Crown Court where he was jailed for five months after pleading guilty to breaking health and safety laws, including failing to report the incident.

The HSE said: “Adjacent properties had to be evacuated and the area cordoned off because there were concerns that members of the public living near by and passing through the area were at risk.

“An investigation … found that the property had bungeroosh walls, common to buildings in the Brighton area which were built in the mid-18th to 19th century.

“They are constructed with a mixture of rubble, timber, pebbles, stones and flint in a lime mix mortar set between shuttering.

“The make-up of these walls makes working on this type of building more challenging in terms of structural stability, meaning that those doing so must fully understand what they are dealing with.

“The investigation also found that Glen Peters failed to report the incident to the HSE as a dangerous occurrence in accordance with the Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations (RIDDOR) 2013.”

Glen Peters

Peters was jailed for five months for the dangerous way in which he worked and two months for not reporting the incident. The sentences are to run concurrently, making five months in total.

He was also ordered to pay costs of £7,000.

HSE principal inspector Emma Stiles said: “Basement work must be properly planned to ensure the structural integrity of the building throughout the construction work.

“When this type of work is done badly, workers and members of the public are at significant risk of serious injury or death.

“In addition, we cannot underestimate the impact on the homeowners when their properties are extensively damaged.”

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Comments 4

  1. Valerie Paynter says:
    5 years ago

    How come nobody got jailed for the Sackville Hotel collapse when it was scaffolded and apparently under renovation?

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  2. Dodgy Builder says:
    5 years ago

    Glen Peters / Brow Builders may want to leave that review off their Checkatrade profile 😉

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  3. Mark Dailey says:
    3 years ago

    He’s at it again. Just walked out on a job in London that he accepted knowing he couldn’t do it because he didn’t have the correct liability insurance for structural work. Overcharged upfront work and then simply left when structural work was about to start. Sounds like a well worked scam to me

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  4. Stephen Everett says:
    5 months ago

    We experienced so much unresponsible building practices and shoddy workmanship and never finishing what he started. He spent time starting work then looking for more work. He is not a builder his only skill is driving a mini digger. He employs tradesmen but mid directs them leading to short cuts and overcharges for them. Out gutters never drained our new windows scrape the soffits he put in. He replaced our ground floor and installed an in level not fixed timber floor on unstable sleeper walls. We had to pay again for all the bad work he did. He is in truth a fraud, drives around in many different trucks and is actually a danger. Do not employ him or you will pay over the top prices for incompetence. And you will then have to get it redone. He lies to boot. Don’t get me talking about my soil pipe that he changed without being asked! He did it twice and I had to pay to get it done again. He is a menace. I have records of everything and a house just recovering from him and his team.

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