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I Operators which have the line vehicles authorised at vo different operating centres id which move them from one mtre to another do not corniit a "material change" under le terms of environmental leglation, West Midland Licensig Authority John Mervyn ugh ruled last week.
In renewing Rex Organ's air-vehicle/four-trailer licence ith operating centres at icob's Orchard in Hope Manel and at Ross-on-Wye, the A did not accept arguments iat because the vehicles were irely kept at Hope Mansel, le application represented a material change".
Two Hope Mansel residents pposed the application, claimkg that over the last five years iere had only occasionally een a vehide parked at Hope lansel. One claimed that he ad received a telephone call -am Organ's wife, saying that here was no need to object as hey would not be operating ehicles from Jacob's Orchard. 'he only access to Hope Manel was along a narrow unclassled road, and they were very oncerned about increased use y heavy vehicles.
Organ said that he had alvays had two operating cenres, though in recent times acob's Orchard had not been used as much as in the past. He did not forsee any increased use of Jacob's Orchard, but said he would like the licence to stay as it had been in case he needed it in the future. He agreed with the representors there was a possibility that the Ross operating centre would be sold for building, and that Jacob's Orchard would then be his only operating centre.
Two local residents, one a parish, district and county councillor, supported Organ's application and said that they had seen vehicles coming and going to Jacob's Orchard over the past five years.
Renewing the licence, Mervyn Pugh said that if the representors were right, every time an operator took up a vehicle that was on the licence margin there would be a material change. During the currency of the previous licence, Orchard could at any time have had four vehicles at Jacob's Orchard.
Because of the authorisation of four vehicles at each operating centre, however, the Traffic Area computer had it that Orchard was licensed for eight vehicles. Consequently, he would impose a condition that not more than four vehicles and trailers be kept at Jacob's Orchard at any one time.