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S NORTHERN has won aority to transfer vehicles :..t1 at Basildon and Enfield Hoddesdon without any trictive conditions being iosed (CM, August 3). :esidents had opposed the ye before Metropolitan )uty Licensing Authority as Silberstein at a Hertford die inquiry. They cornned about the narrowness he access road, Rye Road, ut the unsuitability of two lges — one with a five-ton limit — for use by heavy tides, and about BRS sides driving over the ements.
he company wanted to solidate its Basildon and ield operations at Hoddesbecause of the lack of m for expansion.
hc Hoddesdon premises
part of a former Schrer UK factory and it was ued that there would in : be less vehicle movement n when Schreiber used it its main production and :ribution centre. Local Labour Party chairman Bob King argued for conditions limiting the size of the vehicles and trailers and the loads they could carry, and for a ban on vehicle movements at the depot at times when children were going to school.
Granting the application, Mr Silberstein said that he sympathised with the residents of Rye Road, as lorry traffic was a nuisance and he urged them to report any future traffic violations to the But he said it was an example of a common case where a planning authority had established an industrial area without giving . much thought to the access roads.
He was concerned about the state of the weight-restricted bridge leading to the operating centre and said it would be a feature in the renewal of the licences of all the operators whose vehicles crossed it.
If the application was refused, the residents were likely to be worse off as subcontractors' vehicles would be fuasceici litt)o service the warehouse
He had seriously considered imposing conditions on the licence, but he felt that any condition he could put on would prejudice BRS's business and in such circumstances the company would be entitled to have them set aside.
In any case, conditions would not assist the residents very much as BRS vehicles constituted less than 20 per cent of lorry traffic along Rye Road.