Abram wins with condi tions
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• Victory has gone to Ken Abram in its battle with West Lancashire District Council over the use of the company's operating centre at Rufford, near Ormskirk. In granting the company authority to operate from Rufford, however, North Western Licensing
Authority Roy Hutchings has imposed a number of restricted conditions.
Foltowing a licencing tangle involving a number of public enquiries and two appeal hearings, the Transpoi/ Tribunal directed the LA to reconsider the company's bid for authority to operate from the former premises of Caunce's Transport with a licence for 42 vehicles and 32 trailers.
The company had been forced to move from its previous premises at Parbold where it was licenced for 12 vehicles and 24 trailers because of planning enforcement action.
Hutchings said he was satisfied that the authorised vehicles were causing adverse environmental
effects by reason of noise, smoke, dust and vibration and that a grant would lead to an increase in those adverse effects.
He did not accept that the nuisance was insufficient to justify the imposition of conditions.
Hutchings imposed conditions restricting the times between which the movement and maintenance of vehicles could be carried out, and preventing the use of equipment for the maintenance, servicing, fueling and loading of the vehicles outside those hours. He also wanted all maintenance other than drivers' daily maintenance to be carried out in covered workshop with the west facing doors closed, and no more reversing of vehicles into and out of the entrance of the premises.