Planning Order Disobeyed •
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INES totalling i15, with £5 costs, were imposed upon Elizabeth Bristow and Ronald E. Bristow, hauliers, Ty Gwyn, Pontrilas, Herefordshire, at Dore magistrates" court, last week, for contravening an enforcement notice issued by the county planning committee.
The defendants, who were represented by Mr. Granville West, M.P., pleaded not guilty, as the occupiers of land in Pontrilas, to disobeying an order to discontinue the use of the land as a parking place for lorries, to cease using three means for access, and to discontinue the use of a loading gantry.
Mr. F. D. Cant, deputy clerk to the county council, prosecuted. He said that Mrs. Bristow had applied for development permission in respect of a garage and means for access to the land, but this had been refused on a direction from the Ministry of Transport, the highway authority, because the ground faced a trunk road.
The first enforcement order, dated March 17, requested Mrs. Bristow to remove a gantry, to alter the roof of a private garage, and to close the three means 'for access within 48 days. Nothing was done and Mrs. .Bristow subsequently applied to the planning committee for an extension of time. This was granted until June 13, but the notices were not complied with.
Mr. West submitted that the original enforcement order had been varied in the supplementary order which followed it. If this were so, it contravened what had been set out in the first notice. The committee had no power to vary the terms of the first enforcement order, which referred to the closing of three means for access and not to the parking place itself. The defendants were willing to remove the gantry and two means for access.
Mrs. Bristow said that if she could not find a place to park the lorries she would have to discontinue her services. After the magistrates gave their decision, Mr. Cant suggested that the matter might be reconsidered by the committee and the Ministry.