New row threatens Scc lorry park
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• Plans to build a .E1.9 m lorry park in Lanarkshire still being resisted.
William Hill, managing d tor of Hydraload, of Bell says plans to create 120 at his factory will not go a if a 400-place Lorry Lodge built on adjacent ground.
He claims that lorries heading for the vehicle p might cause traffic jams or road outside his factory, hi production and profitabilit] But John Stirland, a din of the Lorry Lodge emir Strathallan Investments, z cused Hill of bluffing.
The battle of words hi tween the two companies the latest in a long-runni saga surrounding the lorr complex. Lorry Lodge wi employ 63 people but so residents do not want th complex to be built beca they claim it will "destroy amenity of the area".
They have alleged the I park will attract prostitutâ– crime and possibly drug ficking, but Stirland says allegations are nonsense.
Hill's company manufact drilling rigs, used mainly in coal industry, and the ex 120 jobs would come from development of a clay pii factory.