Tetley: no conditions
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• North Eastern Licensing Authority Frederick Whalley has decided not to impose any operating restrictions on the Durham depot of brewing giant Joshua Tetley & Son, following assurances from the company that its vehicles will use only one particular access route.
The company's bid for renewed authority to operate 14 vehicles and eight trailers from the depot, at Eden Terrace, Durham, had led to representations from local residents (CM 15-21 December 1988).
In a written decision, Whalley said that he had been pursuaded by the evidence before him that operations from the depot gave rise to adverse environmental effects.
While much of the evidence related to environmental effects outside his jurisdiction, he did accept there were prejudicial effects from vehicles entering the operating centre from Eden Terrace.
Accordingly, he had considered imposing a condition re
quiring all the authorised vehicles to enter or leave via the access from the Dragonville Trading Estate instead.
However, since the public inquiry he had received voluntary assurances from the company that its vehicles would only enter and leave the depot via this route.
He regarded that assurance as a legally-enforceable statement of intention made for the purposes of obtaining a licence, and he had therefore decided to renew the licence without conditions.