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LA restricts numbers at saturated base
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West Mids international operator DJ Ponsonby
• ALTHOUGH prepared to grant D J Ponsonby Ltd a new international licence for 15 vehicles and trailers, West Midland LA John Mervyn Pugh has imposed a condition that not more than 12 vehicles and trailers be kept at the site at any one time.
The company initially applied for 20 vehicles and 30 trailers, That provoked representations from Midland Cosmetic Sales Ltd, Better Windows Ltd, Brookvale Autos Ltd and Witton Industrial Properties Ltd.
For the company, Michael Carless said it was the successor to D Ponsonby & Sons Ltd, which had held a licence for 12 vehicles and trailers from the same site. A more realistic application would be one for 15 vehicles and trailers, There was currently an interim for 12 vehicle and trailers One additional vehicle was required within two months, and that would leave a margin of two vehicles.
The representors indicated that it had not been appreciated that the previous company's licence had been surrendered. They said that they were taking legal action over the parking of vehicles and trailers on a car park on the Atlas Industrial Estate, preventing its use by anyone else. The site was not big enough for the existing fleet, let anyone any increase.
Director Don Ponsonby said they would not have moved on to the site if they had not had the landlord's express permission to park trailers on the car park He accepted that the access was poor, and said they tried to be as helpful as possible as they realised they were operating from a restricted area.
Carless said that during the week only about half the vehicles were at the operating centre at any one time. It was an existing operating centre and there would be very little material change if the application was granted There had been no objection from either the police or the local authority, Carless told the Licensing Authority.
Granting 15 vehicles and trailers, with the condition that no more than 12 vehicles and trailers be at the site at any one time, Mervyn Pugh said it would appear to be at saturation point.