Two directors of a building company have been fined thousands of pounds for putting scaffolding on the street without a licence.
Lewis Garnie and Jasmin Pierce of Amazon Access Solutions failed to appear at Brighton Magistrates Court last month, but were found guilty in their absence.
Both were charged with a single offence of putting up scaffolding without a licence at Argus Lofts in Robertson Street on or about 22 August 2025.
Garnie, of Dolphin Road, Shoreham, and Pierce, of Goring Road, Worthing, were both fined £1,760, ordered to pay a court surcharge of £704 and costs of £225, bringing the total court bill for each to £2,689.00.
They were given until 15 June to pay.
Editor’s note: Garnie has contacted Brighton and Hove News to say he disputes being described as “rogue”. He said: “The scaffold was erected with permission under a valid permit/licence. The issue, if any, related to the permit later expiring while the scaffold remained in place, during a period when Amazon Access Solutions Ltd was collapsing, company communications had failed, and email accounts were no longer operational because the company had run out of funds.”
Argus Lofts is in Robert Street not Robertson.
The story doesn’t say whether they were contracted to undertake work by the management company and just left it or just turned up out of the blue and wanted to store their scaffolding 🤷♀️- it’s a bit of a empty story without any details.
Either way they still need a permit to erect scaffoling in that location, if the contractor or management company hasn’t applied for one then they should get a permit in place before work starts erecting scaffolding, that’s why they get fined, it’s the scaffold company who needs to check first, it is after all their equipment, management companies really don’t care, they just facilitate contracts.