The firm which owns a dilapidated mill building in the heart of a £250,000 Accrington regeneration project has been hit with £3,330 legal costs after failing to carry out repairs.

Bubble Holdings Ltd was found guilty in its absence at Blackburn Magistrates Court of failing to comply with a Hyndburn council notice to carry out remedial work to Maudsley Mill on Bradshaw Street East.

This included rebuilding walls, rendering and painting.

The council said they contacted the company director ‘on many occasions’ to request the work be carried out and issued a notice under the Building Act when it was not carried out.

The company, based on Wheatley Lane Road in Barrowford, was fined £2,500, ordered to pay £700 costs and a £120 victim surcharge.

Councillor Clare Cleary

Coun Clare Cleary, cabinet member for housing at Hyndburn council, said: “This mill site is located at the heart of a £250,000 regeneration project. Officers have given the owner of this mill lots of chances to bring it into a state of repair, however, after the notice was also ignored we’ve been left with no choice but to go to court to get the repairs done.”