Unopposed Applications
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ram' time to time there has been I comment concerning the alleged delays caused by Licensing Authorities bringing unopposed applications to inquiry. What is perhaps not generally realized by hauliers who are kept waiting while such applications are heard is that no case is listed without good reason.
Anyone who attends the West Midland courts, against which many of the complaints have been directed, will find that there are many reasons why further c22 inquiries should be made before certain unopposed applications are granted. Hauliers themselves are often to blame in that they tend to leave objection in all but the most controversial applications to British Railways.
The Licensing Authorities' job is to consider all applications in the light of need and to ensure a proper balance between supply and demand, irrespective of whether there are objections.
Although the West Midland traffic area has received adverse publicity in this direction many unopposed cases are brought to inquiry in other areas.: At a recent Carlisle inquiry, at which