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REATER London Council's anning and communications )licy committee leader Shegh Roberts has hailed the urley Way common user eight depot as a saviour of nail hauliers.
She was speaking last week fter she visited the East roydon premises — Britain's rst shared haulier depot — 'inch began experimentally ist year.
She said: "In London there 'e thought to be about 2,000 irries owned by individuals or mall private companies those vehicles are parked on nsuitable sites and, in some ases, serviced in the streets." She said that parking bans Thich removed lorries from esidential streets only asolved one side of the prolem. "Now we are striving to ccentuate the positive: to rovide suitable sites where auliers can carry on business to their own advantage and to the benefit of London's economy and its environment."
Referring to the impending opening of similar facilities at Ordnance Wharf, Blackwall Peninsula and Dalston Lane, Hackney, she said: "The Croydon prototype is a classic case of co-operation between private enterprise and local authority. We have blazed a new trail, and one which other towns and cities in this country could profitably follow."