A Scottish architect has been fined £1,500 for serious professional incompetence after he draw up plans for a house that could not fit on the site.

It was alleged that Alan James Sheerin had produced a design for a house with incorrect measurements for the size of the plot and to the wrong scale, contrary to standards 2.1 and 6.1 of the Architects’ Code.

Sheerin, of Haddington, East Lothian, admitted he had made a mistake in transposing the plan and that this constituted serious professional incompetence.

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