Owners to face trial over work done at takeaway

The operators of an Angus takeaway are to face trial over alleged breach of a planning enforcement notice relating to the frontage of their premises.

Mohammed Taseem Ghafoor and Ijaz Hussain have been charged under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation areas Scotland) Act over signage and white paint applied to the front of the Kohe Noor on St David’s Street in Brechin.

The works carried out to the front of the C-listed town centre building were the subject of enforcement by Angus Council planning officials before the authority referred the matter to the procurator fiscal.

Ghafoor, 48, of Laws Place, Monifieth, and Hussain, 36, of William Street, Dundee, deny failing to comply with an enforcement notice issued in November 2015 which required removal of signage at the premises and white paint from the mortar on the front of the building.

The pair were not in court for the latest calling of the case, but a not guilty plea was entered on their behalf.

Sheriff Gregor Murray set trial for June 9, with an intermediate diet in the case on May 9.

Also at Forfar: Connor Guthrie, 21, of Goosecroft, Forfar, was placed on a one year community payback order, including 100 hours of unpaid work after admitting assaulting two police officers at Burnside Drive, Arbroath, on October 29, including culpably and recklessly pushing one constable and causing him to fall on to the dual carriageway.

Sheriff Murray told Guthrie: “This matter started on petition and was reduced to summary.

“I cannot understand anyone in any condition pushing a person on to a dual carriageway in the darkness with the very high possibility of serious, if not fatal injury,” he added.

Graeme Stott, 40, of York Terrace, Montrose, was fined £340 after previously admitting assaulting his partner in September last year and behaving in a threatening or abusive manner.