One condition for Hills
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• Heavy haulier Hills of Pyebridge, Derbyshire has had its 0-licence renewed despite an environmental representation by a neighbour was described as the third round in a long-running battle.
However, Eastern Deputy Licensing Authority Humphrey Lewis imposed a condition which stated that vehicles were not to be parked in a car park next to the property of the resident concerned, Yvonne Anderson.
He said that Hills operated 24 hours a day and he was not prepared to impose any other conditions.
Ian Rothera, for the company, said Hills had been granted an unrestricted licence for 25 trucks and 30 trailers at a Pyebridge industrial estate in 1985, despite representations.
Three years later an associated company, Sand Hills Transport, sought to base 25 vehicles and 30 trailers at the site and a representation was made again. This time a condition was imposed which stated where the company's vehicles could park.
Anderson said that the use of the site created dust, noise, danger and air pollution. The company ran right up to the boundary of her property and was interfering with the quality of her life.
She denied that Hills director Alan Hill had offered to screen her property and said the only thing that would help was if Hills' companies moved "lock stock and barrel".
Hill said that landscaped mounds had been built round the site. But the one which would have screened Anderson's property had been delayed because of representations to the local council.
The DLA agreed that it could not be pleasing for Anderson to look into an industrial estate, but that was where she lived.