Officers in the city have secured a closure order for a business in Chester.
The order, granted on Wednesday 25 February, follow concerns raised about criminal activity taking place at the properties.
To prevent any further offending, the closure orders means that the properties on Frodsham Street, Chester, which consists of two adjoining shops ( Pasha Kebab and Nova Sweets ) will remain shut for a period of three months.
Anyone who enters either retailer while the order is in place could face a significant fine or even a prison sentence.
Chester LPU Commander, Chief Inspector Paul Fegan, said:
“I hope that closing down these stores provides reassurance to the community and visitors to the local area that we listen to their concerns and take swift action.
“I would like to thank the community for supporting us with information as part of this work — all information about criminal activity assists us.
“Anyone with concerns about suspicious or criminal behaviour in their area can report it to Cheshire Police via the Cheshire Police website or by calling 101.”
The Chester blog 
If it’s closed how can anyone enter it?
Presumably staff have access to the building
Good – the proliferation of “we sell vapes to children” shops in and around Chester has been very sad – easy thing for the council to control, (it’s a nice handy tax dodge for the owners of the buildings, similar to the ‘pop up’ galleries and so on), as usual they’re not bothered until it becomes a really expensive problem and the police have to be involved.
Next stop should be to clear out the mobile phone / plastic tat shops and organise some social accommodations for real local businesses – tiny bit of imagination and these problems go away.
a number of these have type of shops have had action taken against them by Police recently, the council have no control of businesses opening unless a change of use is needed. Council has no power to close /clear out privately owned businesses
They could use their planning and tax-related powers to basically harass them out of existence (ie: set up a design code; none of these shops will ever be compliant – or even just enforce existing planning requirements for heritage properties, which they don’t currently seem to do) – or my favourite – have a local vote, and raise a new local ‘precept’ that targets vape shops, mobile phone resellers, and other place-holder ‘businesses’. Set up a new precept that directly targets the owners of properties with these shops in them. Lots the council can do. It’s really something the police shouldn’t have to be involved in – the problem shouldn’t be there festering in the first place.
Appreciate your reporting as always – positive news regardless !