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Weight of traffic saves the case • Cheshire haulier James

25th February 1993
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Irlam has trebled the authorisation at its Stone, Staffordshire, depot, despite environmental representations. The company sought to increase its five vehicles and trailers to 15 at the depot. Neighbour John Culbert said residents suffer from noise and vibration as vehicles blew their horns going over a blind bridge.

The highway department said the road was inadequate for the traffic and the company's application would increase the nuisance even further. For Irlam, John Backhouse said the compa ny's vehicles did not use the road along the canal side and when they went over the canal bridge they would turn right and enter the depot from the right unless travelling to Stone to ensure the vehicles did not pass the representors' houses.

White Bridge Road also serves three other industrial sites. A 1990 survey showed that 1,700 vehicles were using the bridge daily, an eighth of which were commercial vehicles.

Director Martin Irlam said that he had driven a vehicle over the bridge and he could see over the bridge. The company's drivers should not have to sound their horns and they would be given written instructions to that effect. Their vehicles should have no problems going up the incline to the bridge as they were not old vehicles and they were carrying relatively light products.

Granting the increase without restriction, West Midland Traffic Commissioner John Mervyn Pugh said that he had every sympathy with the residents but he could not refuse the application when such a volume of traffic used White Bridge Road.


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