Workers pictured dangling 60ft over rocks from their scaffolding poles at Dawn French’s Cornish mansion
Builders were temporarily banned from working at Dawn French's cliff-top mansion after a worker was seen precariously dangling from scaffolding – 60ft above rocks.
Health and safety chiefs served the order after a passer-by complained about alarming scenes while workers fixed up the comic's 40-room home.
The builders were seen clambering over the scaffolding poles at Point Neptune House in Fowey, Cornwall, but did not appear to wear harnesses or helmets for their series of risky manoeuvres.
One worker was pictured stretching his entire body out from the scaffolding and brazenly leaning face-first into the cliff.
A second worker was also spotted balancing on the scaffolding in front of the mansion's huge-arched windows, as material was lowered to his colleagues below.
After complaints, the Health and Safety Executive ordered Heritage Cornwall Ltd to stop work immediately on the Grade II-listed property until they had 'put it right'.
According to The People, one parent had marched to the gate of the mansion and went 'absolutely balistic' when some material allegedly fell close to where his children were playing on the rocks.
A passer-by told the paper: 'The builders were passing buckets to each other and stuff was falling out of them.
'A guy on the beach was going absolutely balistic because something landed on rocks near his children.'
A HSE spokesman confirmed a prohibition notice had been issued against Heritage Cornwall Ltd in connection with 'issues about access to the work area'.
It said the firm, which were reportedly carrying out work to strengthen a wall on the cliffs, had to stop work 'immediately' but that the issue had now been resolved.
