Staffs family faces £568 fine
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• The operation of vehicles without a licence, and a failing to notify the Licensing Authority of a bankruptcy, has cost a Staffordshire family and its company 568 in fines and costs, when they admitted the offences before Rugeley magistrates.
Reefbrook has been fined £200 with £68 costs for five offences of using vehicles without a licence. John Windsor has also been fined ,£100 for failing to notify the West Midlands Licensing Authority of his bankruptcy. Windsor's wife, Jean, has been fined i',200 for aiding and abetting the company to operate vehicles without a licence.
Prosecuting, Patrick McKnight said Windsor had held an eight-vehicle licence with up to six vehicles specified at any one time. He had been engaged in a long running battle with the local authority over planning permission for his operating centre. He was, however, eventually granted limited planning permission for the premises at Greenacres, Hednesford Road, Rugeley for his own use as an operator. That planning permission was not transferrable.
In April 1984 Windsor was declared bankrupt. Reefbrook was formed with Windsor's wife and two sons being the directors. That company carried on using some of the vehicles. No application was made for an operator's licence and no application was made to the local authority in regard to planning permission. If the company had applied for an operator's licence, it would have had to advertise the application and that would have brought the matter to the attention of the local authority who would have objected because of the lack of planning permission.
In a letter to the court Windsor said the company had not applied for a licence because of the planning problems. It had known that if it had applied without sorting out the planning permission the application would have been refused,