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Official backing for Wilts hauliei
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LOCAL Government Ombudsman Denis Harrison has accu! Salisbury District Council of maladministration by allowini haulier to set up business without following proper plann, procedures.
This follows complaints fro'm a resident of East Knoyle, Wilts., where haulier Bob Maidment opened a yard on the site of a former joinery workshop in 1975.
The Ombudsman has upheld complaints that the council failed to follow proper procedures before deciding that there was no change of use of the site, that no action was taken when access to the site was extended by six feet, and that it did not tell highway authority, Wiltshire County Council, that a haulage business had been started.
He says also that the council was wrong when it believed it could control the use of t site, and that committ members were not given s ficient time in which to cc sider the plan. He concludes by saying a council officials' reports w( inaccurate and biased in f; our of a developer. Local councillor John Lc gley said last week that t resident's complaints had be vindicated completely by t Ombudsman and that hoped the council wou apologise.
He added: "The developer now well established on t site, and it would be the wi of the parishioners that remains there and prospers.
"But the council must fi some solution to control t use of the site and make su similar mistakes do not ha pen in future."
A Salisbury District Coun spokesman told CM this we that the matter would be d cussed by the planning col mittee on June 28 and by t full council on July 17. "I cat make any comme meantime," he added.