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Residents oppose use
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• Currie & Johnstone (European Transport), was granted additional vehicles and trailers last year after undertaking only to use a road close to its operating centre when absolutely essential. But it faced opposition from residents of another road subsequently used, when it sought further expansion before Scottish Deputy Licensing Authority Ramsay Dalgety.
In the event, the DLA granted the company's application, to add 15 vehicles and 100 trailers to its existing licence for 40 vehicles and 150 trailers, without restriction.
Resident Agnes Conachie complained about the number of heavy vehicles now using Catherine Field Road following the company's undertaking last August in respect of the use of Herries Avenue. (CM 25-31 August). She maintained that Herries Avenue was a more suitable route, saying that Catherine Field Road was too
narrow. She complained about damage to verges and walls and alleged that residents were sometimes unable to get in and out of their properties due to vehicles arriving in convoys.
She agreed she had no objection to the use of the company's operating centre as such, and that vehicles going to a Department of Transport test station were directed along Catherine Field Road.
For the company, Michael Whiteford said that a weight restriction would be put on both roads once the Dumfries bypass was opened in the autumn of 1990.
Managing director Norman Currie said there had been a considerable increase in the company's European operations and he anticipated that it would require the full number of vehicles and trailers within two years. He was doing his best to expand his business, but every time he was opposed. This was the fourth public inquiry he had been required to attend. He would do his best to lessen the problem in Catherine Field Road.
In reply to the DLA, Currie said there were currently about 100 vehicle movements a day in and out of the operating centre. He estimated that would increase by about 15 to 20%.
Whiteford pointed out that there had been no objection from the highway authority or the police.
Granting the application, Dalgety said it was clear that the existing road network in the vicinity was totally inadequate. However, he noted the early completion date of the bypass, and Currie's sympathetic attitude. There were no conditions he could impose.