No longer of good repute
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• The licence of Philip Stanford.
trading as Wolverley Plant Hire, of Kidderminster, has been revoked by West Midland Deputy Traffic Commissioner Roger Seymour. Stanford has also been disqualified from holding or obtaining a licence for two years.
Seymour decided that Stanford had last his good repute bemuse of breaches of environmental conditions, significant and avoidable maintenance failings, failing to maintain tachograph records, using untaxed vehicles, convictions for permitting the deposit and depositing controlled waste. and a deliberate false statement in a licence renewal application.
He added that Stanford no longer met the financial standing requirement because he failed to produce accounts for 1994/95 as requested at a previous public inquiry and when those accounts were eventually presented they misrepresented the financial position.
Asked why he had not declared his convictions in the renewal application form, Stanford said it was because an appeal was pending.
Seymour said that Stanford had signed the application form the day before the appeal was heard, yet he had made no reference to the convictions.
Asked why vehicles had been used without being taxed, Stanford replied that it was due to lack of funds. His work was mainly bulk tipping, skips and plant and this had been the worst period for business he had experienced since the War.
Patricia Cartwright, who lives at the entrance to the access road at the Old Rover Works, Kingsford Lane, where Stanford is authorised to keep one vehicle and three trailers, said that more than one vehicle was regularly parked there overnight.