Redundant driver wins rights on site
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• A driver who started his own haulage business after being made redundant has beaten off opposition from neighbours and Shrewsbury and Atcham Borough Council to his licence bid.
Christopher Parkinson has been operating under interim authority since November. He applied for a substantive licence for two vehicles based at Pulley Hall Farm, Pulley Lane, Bays on Hill, Shrewsbury. The council opposed the application on planning and environmental grounds.
Parkinson operates a 31-Milner which goes out in the morning and returns in the evening He does some work for G V Davies Farms which owns the operating centre. Davies already had planning permission for one vehicle to be operated from the farm.
Planning enforcement officer Susan Orrell said there was no planning permission for Parkin. son's operation and should licence be granted enforcement action would be considered. Even one vehicle movement would damage the residential amenities. The residents complained about the narrowness of the lane and about noise and pollution.
West Midland Traffic Commissioner John Mervyn Pugh commented that traffic was a matter for the county council.
Granting the licence, with conditions on access and exit, restricting the time of operation and limiting the number of vehicles at the operating centre at any one time, Mervyn Pugh said it would be wrong to stop a man carrying on business when a traffic examiner reported he had an adequate operating centre.