An Essex company director and one of his businesses have been told to pay more than £8,000 in fines and costs after being convicted of four counts of misusing the title “architect”.

Professional regulator the Architects Registration Board said it had first warned 39-year-old Alan Green, of Benfleet, about the legal use of the title architect – which is protected under the Architects Act 1997 – in 2012.

Last week Green was told to pay £3,378.13 at Southend Magistrates Court after guilty pleas were entered to the charges. A9 Architecture was told to pay £5,100 in fines and costs.

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