New licence bid is adjourned
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• A bid for a licence by former haulier Stanley Fernyhough has been adjourned while the attitude of the Peak District National Park Planning Board is investigated. Fernyhough lost his licence in October 1991 after convictions for falsifying tachograph records and theft.
Fernyhough's application for a licence for two vehicles and two trailers based at Hilly Lees Farm, Swythamley, near Macclesfield, was opposed by the board and Staffordshire County Council, neither of which appeared at a Birmingham public inquiry.
Paul Carless, for Fernyhough, said he had been farming for the past seven years. After it was said that Fernyhough had just become company secretary of the family business, West Midland Traffic Commissioner John Mervyn Pugh said he ought to consider his posi Lion as that company was being investigated for the alleged use of an unauthorised operating centre and Fernyhough might be involved in another revocation. The TC added that there was a planning enforcement notice on Hill Lees Farm.
Carless said Fernyhough had been told the Peak Board would have no objection if the licence were limited to two vehicles and trailers to be used for agricultural purposes only.
Asked why he was not seeking a restricted licence in such circumstances, Fernyhough said he needed a national licence as he bought and sold goods for other farmers. When he went 200 miles to pick up animal feed he wanted to be able to carry other people's produce outwards.
Adjourning the hearing, Mervyn Pugh said the board was not there to confirm its approval. If he granted Fernyhough a licence the enforcement order would come into effect and the board's position needed to be clarified.