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Permission granted despite council fears over access
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SURREY AND SUSSEX Scaffolding has been granted a licence, subject to conditions and undertakings, despite claims from Surrey County Council that the road network surrounding the operating centre was unsuitable.
The company had applied to South Eastern 8z. Metropolitan Traffic Commissioner Christopher Heaps to base one 7.5-tonner at West End Farm, West End Lane, Haslemere.
Appearing for the council, Howard Rickard said that in November 2()00 he had advised limited commercial use of a barn on the site might be possible with appropriate conditions.The roads leading to and from the site, especially from the north, were single track, hilly and twisty.
Director Stuart McGregor said he was prepared to accept conditions that the vehicle should enter and leave in forward gear; that it would use the 'field gate' entrance and not the one next to the barn; that no scaffolding would be stored,loaded or unloaded at the site; that the vehicle would not exceed 7.5 tonnes or the size of the existing vehicle;and that it would approach and leave from the south.
He also undertook that the vehicle would approach and leave West End Lane from one direction and that it M.! would make no more than one return journey each day. McGregor added that his vehicle was smaller than 'many vehicles using the roads in the area.
Granting the application subject to the proposed conditions and undertakings, the TC said he was entitled to take account of the county council's view as highway authority that the barn might be suitable for limited commercial use. Any commercial use was likely to create some additional vehicular traffic.
In the absence of any evidence of the unsuitability of the highway network in an environmental context he was not persuaded that the site was unsuitable for use as an operating centre.