Events company faces insolvency over council business rates dispute
Owner says he should be allowed rate relief
Colin Enos, owner of Mobile Stuctures, outside Lincoln Magistrates Court. | Photo: Daniel Jaines
The owner of a company which provides marquees to major events such as Glastonbury, Leeds and Reading Festivals says he faces insolvency after being ordered to pay nearly £30,000 of business rate debt accrued during COVID-19 despite arguing he classed as hospitality.
Colin Enos, of Mobile Structures Management in Heapham, near Gainsborough, said his last official big job prior to the outbreak of the pandemic was in October 2019.
West Lindsey District Council said Mr Enos’ business was classed as storage and should not be allowed a 100% business rate holiday offered to hospitality and leisure businesses by the government during the coronavirus pandemic.
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Court news
Tristan Edward Laws, 34, whose addresses were listed as Waring Street in Horncastle and Stenner Road in Coningsby, appeared at Lincoln Magistrates’ Court on April 22.
Laws was charged with being drunk and disorderly at Bar Eleven, in Woodhall Spa, on December 23, 2019.
Laws changed his plea from not guilty to guilty on April 22.
There was no separate penalty for this offence and defendant’s guilty plea taken into account when imposing sentence.
On the same day, Laws was also charged with assaulting a police officer in Woodhall Spa.
For this offence, Laws was ordered to pay £100 in compensation and £250 to the CPS.