Developer given suspended jail sentence for fire safety breaches

A company director has been handed a suspended jail sentence after pleading guilty to breaching fire safety regulations at a high-rise residential building in Worthing.
Anthony Coates, a company director from Walton-on-the-Naze in Essex, was prosecuted by West Sussex Fire & Rescue Service for significant breaches of fire safety regulations.
Coates was the director of two companies involved in the purchase and renovation of Columbia House in Romany Road, Worthing around 2022.The former office