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Bowater suffers conditions

12th July 1986, Page 14
12th July 1986
Page 14
Page 14, 12th July 1986 — Bowater suffers conditions
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Which of the following most accurately describes the problem?

• North Western Licensing Authority Roy Hutchings has imposed conditions on the size and number of vehicles and trailers to be operated from the factory by Robroy Transport.

The company wanted to renew its international licence for 30 vehicles and 34 trailers with 30 vehicles and 14 trailers based at its main operating centre in Sale, Cheshire, and 20 trailers at the Bowater Drums factory in Disley.

Numerous representations were received in connection with the Disley site, 16 of which were accepted as valid. An objection on highway grounds from Cheshire County Council was received late and was ruled invalid.

Arguing that the representors were not in the vicinity of the centre, Roger Groarke, for the company, said the operating centre is at the back of the factory site, a distance from the properties of the representors on Red House Lane.

The only property in the vicinity is a nearby farm and the owners made no representation.

Granting renewal with conditions that not more than 20 trailers be parked at Disley at any one time and that the maximum gross weight of articulated combinations that can he operated from the site be 32.5 tonnes, Hutchings said that although he felt very sorry for the residents, there is nothing he could do to tackle their main problem.


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