Batty wins the battle to move
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• Removals firm Ernest Batty of Evesham has won
gm. a fight to move to
a new operating centre, despite local authority opposition. The firm had applied to renew its international licence for six vehicles with an additional operating centre at Springhill Farm, Salters Lane, Lower Moor, Pershore.
Richard Alexander, for Wychavon District Council, told a Birmingham public inquiry that a planning enforcement notice had been served on the site, which was a group of empty farm buildings. A planning application by the owners had been refused because of the unsuitable access along a narrow lane. Appeals against that refusal, and the issue of the enforcement notice were due to be considered soon.
There had been much public complaint about the use of the site, said Alexander. He conceded that much larger vehicles than Batty's were using the lane to get to a packing station.
Michael Carless, for the firm, said it used the site as a furniture depository. Where the lane joined the public road, which was the only part that the LA could take into account following a ruling by the Transport Tribunal, it was at its best.