30-year layby' operation
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II A livestock haulier has been allowed to renew its three-vehicle/ one-trailer national licence despite using a lay-by as an unauthorised operating centre for 30 years.
In July 1993 South Wales LA John Mervyn Pugh adjourned consideration of disciplinary action against Vale of Glamorgan-based ET Adams & Sons after being told the owners of the land were seeking a legal remedy.
The firm had worked from Darren Farm, Cowbridge for 30 years and had always used the layby. It was not suggested the layby was part of the farm; there had been an innocent failure to describe the operating centre correctly (CM 22-28july 1993.) The firm sought renewal with a change of operating centre from Darren Farm to Ty Uchaf Farm,
Llantrithyd. Partner Robert Adams said they had been advised to appeal against the refusal of authority to use the layby as an operating centre. The appeal was withdrawn suddenly after pressure from the highway authority
The company looked for a new operating centre and the only site was Adams' farm at Ty Uchaf.
Mervyn Pugh renewed the licence with conditions requiring vehicles to turn right into the access and to turn left on leaving,