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# Councillor questions local businesses not looking to improve food hygiene ratings
- URL: https://lichfieldlive.co.uk/councillor-questions-local-food-business-not-looking-to-improve-food-hygiene-ratings/
- Published: 2025-06-17T06:07:00.000Z
- Updated: 2025-06-16T12:58:05.000Z
- Description: A councillor has questioned businesses not seeking to improve their food hygiene rating.
- Author: Lichfield Live
- Tags: Burntwood, Politics, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-07-22 18:49, News

A COUNCILLOR has questioned businesses not seeking to improve their food hygiene rating.

Cllr Steve Norman, Labour representative for the Chase Terrace ward, made his comments after [a report revealed more than hundreds of inspections had been carried out](https://lichfieldlive.co.uk/report-reveals-council-has-carried-out-hundreds-of-food-hygiene-inspections-over-the-past-year/) over the past year by Lichfield District Council.

The former chair of the local authority’s environmental health committee welcomed the news that 195 food businesses were rated as ‘very good’ – but said that he was surprised at the number rated at the other end of the scale that were not seeking a re-inspection.

Cllr Norman said:

> “I would never visit a restaurant or pub or cafe with less than a four-star rating, but a business can ask for a re-inspection as soon as they have made the necessary changes.  
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> “Therefore I don’t understand why the three establishments in the district with only a two-star rating – meaning improvement is necessary – received the judgment in May last year but seem to be happy for that to continue.  
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> “Even more surprising are the two businesses with a one-star food hygiene rating meaning major improvement is necessary. One in Lichfield was inspected in March this year and one, in Streetly, in June last year.  
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> “I am pleased to see that there are no hotels, bed and breakfast or guest houses with anything less than a four-star rating.”

The report to a meeting of the regulatory and licensing committee meeting this week revealed that during the 2024-25 period, six hygiene improvement notices had been issued for “serious legal breaches”.

The review will be discussed at the committee meeting on Thursday (19th June).