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Second time refusal for hay and straw merchant
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For the second time Western Traffic Commissioner Philip Brown has rejected a Wiltshire hay and straw merchant's bid to move its operating centre. Last November he refused Gary Way's application to base his vehicle and trailer at Lower Leigh Farm in East Knoyle, Salisbury on environmental grounds. Way appealed to the Tribunal, which directed the TC to reconsider the case as it felt he had taken account of irrelevant matters (CM2-8 May).
Neighbouring resident Charles Cotton said he had concerns about the increased noise pollution, dust, visual intrusion and safety of his four children if the operating centre was to move there.
Traffic examiner Terrence Skiba said the vehicle would pass within a foot or so of Cotton's house, so he did not consider the farm suitable as an operating centre. delivering those materials to the owner.
Harris said that there were only about six occasions a year when the vehicle would enter the farm laden. it would aiways move slowly past Cotton's house, and if it was parked beside the farmhouse nobody could see it. He did not feel that complaints about dust were relevant.
Following a site visit Brown rejected the application, concluding that the site was neither technically nor environmentally suitable for use as an operating centre. He cited noise, visual intrusion and the location of a strip of land owned by Cotton, over which vehicles had to pass in order to gain entry to the farm.