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road was unsuitable on road safety grounds were rejected by South Wales licensing authority John Mervyn Pugh when he granted authority for the use of an additional operating centre by Ivor Jones, trading as Lin Motors.
Jones had applied for a licence for 15 vehicles and eight trailers, an increase of five vehicles over the licence previously held by a family partnership, with an additional operating centre at the site of a former colliery at Crumlin.
Charles Dawson, for the county council, said the access road was unsuitable for the type of vehicle that would use it, and its junction with the public road was particularly dangerous.
For the applicant, Geraint Jones said Lin Motors had for many years held a contract for the carriage of the products of a firm of plastic manufacturers. By moving to the Crurnlin site it would be close to its customers' premises.
Even if the application was refused, the vehicles would have to travel through Cnunlin and the industrial estate.
Granting the application, Mervyn Pugh said that arguments about the suitability of a private access road were invalid, following the Transport Tribunal's decision in the case of Scorpio International v Lancashire County Council.