{"id":158326,"date":"2026-01-14T11:31:31","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T11:31:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/?p=158326"},"modified":"2026-01-14T11:31:31","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T11:31:31","slug":"company-director-fined-nearly-20k-after-failing-comply-with-enforcement-notices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/health-safety-news\/company-director-fined-nearly-20k-after-failing-comply-with-enforcement-notices\/158326\/","title":{"rendered":"Company and director fined nearly \u00a320k after failing to comply with enforcement notices"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Vasilis Paraskeva and his London-based company, VNP Constructions Limited, have been fined nearly \u00a320,000 in total after failing to comply with enforcement notices<\/h2>\n<p>Paraskeva and VNP Constructions Limited were contracted to deliver the conversion of a former public house and adjoining building into residential flats on White Lion Street in London.<\/p>\n<p>During a site visit on 1 September 2022, Health and Safety Executive (HSE) inspectors identified several issues including work at height risks and concerns about the competence of site management. Prohibition and Improvement notices were served.<\/p>\n<p>Further visits over the following 12 months identified additional breaches, demonstrating a continued failure to suitably plan, manage and monitor the work. Additional Prohibition and Improvement notices were served.<\/p>\n<p>An HSE investigation found that Vasilis Paraskeva and VNP Constructions Limited failed to comply with the requirements of multiple enforcement notices and failed to<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/health-safety-news\/scf-report-reveals-best-construction-site-safety-interventions\/132630\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> ensure work was carried out safely<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>Contractors have a responsibility to plan, manage and monitor construction work to ensure that it is safe<\/h3>\n<p>VNP Constructions Limited, of Kings Avenue, Winchmore Hill, London, pleaded guilty to breaching Regulation 15(2) of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hse.gov.uk\/pubns\/books\/l153.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015<\/a> and to two counts of failing to comply with a Prohibition Notice contrary to Section 33(1)(g) of the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1971.<\/p>\n<p>The company was fined \u00a37200 and ordered to pay \u00a3900 in costs at the same hearing.<\/p>\n<p>The Director, Vasilis Paraskeva, of Kings Avenue, Winchmore Hill, London, pleaded guilty to three offences on the basis that the company had committed the above three offences and those offences were committed with his consent or connivance or was attributable to his neglect by virtue of S37(1) of the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974<\/p>\n<p>He was fined \u00a310,800 and ordered to pay \u00a3900 in costs at Snaresbrook Crown Court on 7 January 2026.<\/p>\n<h3>&#8220;HSE will not hesitate to take action&#8221;<\/h3>\n<p>This HSE prosecution was brought by HSE Enforcement lawyer Matthew Reynolds and paralegal officer Melissa Wardle.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking after the hearing, HSE inspector Andrew Pipe said: &#8220;These fines should send a clear message to the construction industry that HSE and the courts take failure to comply with enforcement notices extremely seriously.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;HSE will not hesitate to take action against companies and individuals who fail to keep people safe.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"mk-custom-module-container\">\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vasilis Paraskeva and his London-based company, VNP Constructions Limited, have been fined nearly \u00a320,000 in total after failing to comply with enforcement notices. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":158337,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[309],"tags":[429,173010,564,753],"stakeholder_rel_tag":[],"contributor_rel_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-158326","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health-safety-news","8":"tag-building-control","9":"tag-construction-crime-and-law","10":"tag-hse","11":"tag-safety"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.9 (Yoast SEO v26.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Company and director fined nearly \u00a320k after failing to comply with enforcement notices<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Vasilis Paraskeva and his company, VNP Constructions Limited, have been fined nearly \u00a320,000 after failing to comply with enforcement notices\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/health-safety-news\/company-director-fined-nearly-20k-after-failing-comply-with-enforcement-notices\/158326\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Company and director fined nearly \u00a320k after failing to comply with enforcement notices\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Vasilis Paraskeva and his company, VNP Constructions Limited, have been fined nearly \u00a320,000 after failing to comply with enforcement notices\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/health-safety-news\/company-director-fined-nearly-20k-after-failing-comply-with-enforcement-notices\/158326\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Planning, Building &amp; 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