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Conditions to protect locals
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Granting Kane Haulage authority to use an operating centre at Porters Wood, St Albans for 25 vehicles and five trailers, Eastern Deputy Traffic Commissioner Robert Lockwood has iMposed a string of conditions to protect local residents.
The Deputy TC heard that the Porters Wood site was acquired in 1993 after its occupier's Amalgamated Removers ii, Transport, had gone into liquidation. That company had operated 30 vehicles from the site. Some £450,000 had been Spent in providing modern purpose-built facilities.
The application was opposed by St Albans City and District Council, which was concerned about the effect of noise and vehicle activity Though the site was in a designated light industrial area, vehicles entering and leaving the premises had to travel along Valley Road, which was a residential road. It was suggested that vehicle movements be limited to 07:00-19:00hrs Mondays-Fridays and 07:00-12:00hrs in Saturdays. For the company, it was suggested that if vehicles could not leave between 06:00-07:00hrs this would result in a 16% reduction in turnover equating to £1.1m a year.
The Deputy TC granted the application with vehicle movements restricted to 06:00-19:00hrs Monday-Friday and 06;00-14:00hrs on Saturdays. He sought an undertaking that movements from 06:00-06:30hrs would be limited to five and from 06:30-07:00hrs to seven with no movements on Sundays and bank holidays and no convoys of vehicles.