ENFORCEMENT notices ordering the owners of the fire-damaged Indian takeaway restaurant in Cross Street to renovate the building have been going to the wrong address, Abergavenny Magistrates Court heard this week.

Both Mrs Nazia Chowdury, from Whitchurch in Cardiff and Mr Abulace Torofdur of Handpost in Newport, the building's owners, said that they were unaware of legal proceedings until they had spoken to their solicitor during the summer.

Ioan Gealy prosecuting for Monmouthshire County Council told the court that enforcement letters had been sent to an address at Albany Road in Cardiff.

Keith Evans defending told the court that Chowdury had lived at her address for nine years and that Torofdur had lived at his address for the past 18 months and that neither had even lived at Albany Road in Cardiff.

Earlier this year the couple were fined in their absence £600 each with costs amounting to £250 each.  

But now the whole legal process will have to start again with the previous convictions being set aside.

The court heard that the solicitors conducting the original conveyancing for the property in Cross Street had registered the Albany Road Cardiff address with the Land Registry.

Mr Gealy said, "I feel in essence the papers were served as they were attached to the scaffolding in Cross Street regardless of which postal address they were sent to."

However it was agreed that the two defendants should sign a Statutory Declaration Notice and that legal proceedings should be recommenced by Monmouthshire County Council.

Monmouthshire County Council's Chief Executive Paul Matthews said: "We served a notice upon the owners in August 2011 because of the detrimental impact the building has on the Abergavenny Conservation Area."