An architect has been fined £1,000 and censured for unprofessional conduct after part of a house extension project had to be demolished because he failed to communicate design changes to the client and contractor.

Ian Cook of North Shields-based Ian M Cook Architects was issued with the penalty order by the Architects Registration Board’s professional conduct committee last week after accepting his failings over the 2018 project.

The PCC heard Cook had been appointed to deliver a two-storey extension at the home of Mark Gaffney in January last year and had submitted proposals for the work – which required the demolition of an existing garage – to local planning authority Newcastle council.

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