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• Tameside Borough Council has blocked a bid by Audenshaw, Manchester skip hire operator Ian Sharpies to move his operating centre.
Sharpies, who trades as Sharpies Mini Skips, wanted to move his operating centre to The Lodge, Cornhill Lane, Audenshaw. Opposing the application on environmental grounds, the council said Sharpies was unfit to hold a licence because of breaches of planning and waste disposal regulations (CM 29 Sept-5 Oct).
North Western Deputy Licensing Authority John Levin refused the application and in his decision said Sharp`les had got himself into a number of situations which with a little bit more caution and advice he would have avoided. But the LA did not think Levin was unfit to hold a licence.
However, on the question of the suitability of the proposed operating centre, Levin felt that the access could not be more difficult. In his opinion it was unsuitable for heavy goods vehicles. The fact that the vehicle in use was a 7.5-tonne unladen skip truck, and the fact that it only made two journeys along the access a day did not, in his view, have any effect on the question of the suitability of the access. • The authorisation on the licence held by Anderson Bros (Westerhope) of Newcastle upon Tyne has been curtailed to 18 vehicles and four trailers.
North Eastern LA Keith Waterworth directed that the licence terminates at the end of 1995, and he is to review finance on receipt of the 1994 accounts.