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Gliders wins battle over environmental breaches
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Despite complaints from nearby residents, Gloucestershire livestock haulier Gliders Transport has been cleared of breaching environmental conditions placed on its licence in 1999.
The Winchcombe, Cheltenham-based company, which holds a licence for 33 vehicles and 30 trailers had been called before the Western Deputy Traffic Commissioner, Alan Bourlet, at a Cheltenham disciplinary inquiry (CM12-18 Dec 2002).
In 1999, the then Western TC Christopher Heaps imposed conditions on the licence designed to minimise disturbance to neighbouring residents. These included parking and loading restrictions, engines not to be run for more than three minutes and reversing alarms switched off at night.
The residents claimed that the conditions had been breached on a number of occasions since 1999.
In particular they alleged that an incident involving managing director Graham Gilder parking outside his house adjacent to the operating centre for several minutes while he picked up his grandchild was a breach of the conditions.
Taking no action against the company, the DTC said that the TO had the power to impose conditions regulating the parking of vehicles within the operating centre itself, which he clearly did.
In addition he had the power to regulate the parking of authorised vehicles in the vicinity of the operating centre. When the wording of the conditions on the company's licence was examined it was clear it was specific to the operating centre and did not mention parking on the highway There was no reference to parking being restricted on any part of the highway and it seemed clear that the TC had not availed himself of that power in 1999.
"I find, in these circumstances, that there has been no breach of the conditions attached lathe licence," said the DTC.