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Wirral tries to ban village HGV routes
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WIRRAL COUNTY Council (WCC) is attempting to stop trucks from travelling through certain villages after its appeal against plans to build a distribution centre was rejected.
Last year Ahli supermarket was granted permission by Ellesmere Port and Neston Councils to build the hub on a former industrial site at Neston. This would create 200 jobs and serve 35 stores across the North-West.
WCC appealed against the decision after discovering that trucks would have to travel on the A551 through Thornton Hough and Bankston. But in April 2004 Ellesmere Port and Neston dismissed WCC's calls to overturn planning permission for the depot, saying it would leave the authority millions of pounds out of pocket (CM 22 April 2004).
But David Green, WCC's director of technical services, says it still shares residents' concerns about increasing numbers of HGVs passing through these villages: "We don't believe these are appropriate routes for large wagons and hope this proposed Traffic Regulation Order will go a long way to protecting the local environment."