{"id":11444,"date":"2025-04-11T17:52:08","date_gmt":"2025-04-11T17:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/11444\/"},"modified":"2025-04-11T17:52:08","modified_gmt":"2025-04-11T17:52:08","slug":"birmingham-dixy-chicken-shop-shut-down-over-mice-in-the-cellar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/11444\/","title":{"rendered":"Birmingham Dixy Chicken shop shut down over mice in the cellar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Birmingham City Council secured a Hygiene Emergency Prohibition Notice against the business<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/0_DixyJPG.jpg\" alt=\"Dixy Chicken on Church Road, Yardley\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>Dixy Chicken on Church Road, Yardley<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">A Dixy Chicken restaurant in Birmingham has been shut down due to mice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Inspectors confirmed they found droppings throughout the premises on Church Road in <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/all-about\/yardley-and-stechford\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Yardley<\/a>, including in the cellar.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Today, Friday, April 11, <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/all-about\/courts\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Birmingham Magistrates&#8217; Court<\/a> granted a Hygiene Emergency Prohibition Order (HEPO) following an application by <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/all-about\/birmingham-city-council\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Birmingham City Council<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \"><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\">READ MORE: <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/news\/midlands-news\/gambling-addict-dad-lied-kidnapping-31367069\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Crook lied about kidnap, cancer and mother&#8217;s death to con girlfriend out of \u00a369k<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">It means the takeaway must remain closed until the authority is satisfied it is safe too reopen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Simon Garrison, environmental health officer, told the court: &#8220;When I visited Dixy Chicken on April 9 I was there to investigate a complaint when I saw there was poor hygiene and a lot of mouse droppings throughout the premises.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">He took magistrates through dozens of photographs showing droppings in a number of locations including near a chicken cutting station, chip station, hot food displays and on shelving near to food packaging.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Mr Garrison said there were droppings in the rear food preparation area and the food packaging room.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The officer highlighted a photograph showing the access to the cellar, which he suggested could be the access point for the pests.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;There were a lot of mouse droppings on the floor in the cellar,&#8221; he said, adding: &#8220;We determined there was an imminent risk to health because of the amount of droppings throughout the premises.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;Once it hit food surfaces that&#8217;s when we say there&#8217;s a hazard to health, if it was just in lower areas we wouldn&#8217;t be doing this today.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Mr Garrison confirmed business operator RR Fast Foods, based at the same address, had been served a schedule works but as of this morning it had still not been completed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">He said they had requested pest treatment services.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Magistrates granted the order. RR Fast Foods did not send a representative to the hearing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Birmingham City Council secured a Hygiene Emergency Prohibition Notice against the businessDixy Chicken on Church Road, Yardley A&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11445,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,984,748,30,393,4884,16,15,7843,7842],"class_list":{"0":"post-11444","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-birmingham-city-council","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-courts","12":"tag-england","13":"tag-great-britain","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-yardley-and-stechford","17":"tag-yardley-wood"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11444\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}