0-licence applicant denied 'front' claim
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• A Derbyshire woman was called before a public inquiry in Manchester because of concerns that she might be a "front" for her partner, who had been convicted of the unauthorised carriage and deposit of toxic waste.
Dawn Cupitt, trading as Environmental Services Chesterfield, was seeking a new licence authorising eight vehicles and two trailers. She had been called before North Western Deputy Commissioner John Levin because of concern that she might be a front for Lyndon Woodall, whose own application for a licence had been refused following his conviction on the waste offences for which he had been fined £20,000.
Paul Carless, for Cupitt, maintained she was not a front for anyone. He said she had a personal relationship with Woodall, who had a licensed waste transfer station which he wished to run. Cupitt wanted to run the vehicles and trailers herself, said Carless.
Cupitt said she wanted to improve on the transport that was presently available for the waste transfer operation.
She said she disagreed with Woodall over the way the business was being run, and that was why they were splitting it between them.
"It is the only way that I can get my own way," she said.
Woodall admitted operating vehicles without a licence after his application Cupitt wanted to had been refused, but said Cupitt run the vehicles had played no and trailers herself part in that.
Adjourning the proceedings until 30 June, Levin granted Cupitt interim authority to operate, saying he wanted proof of the separation of the commercial arrangements before coming to a final decision.