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16th February 1985
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THE CONCERN of a lady in her seventies led to Eastern Licensing Authority Kenneth Peter placing conditions on Nottinghamshire operator Derek Poole's 0-licence last week.

Mr Poole, who operates from Station Road, Selston, and trades as Erewash Commercials, was seeking renewal, with the addition of six trailers, to his 30-vehicle standard national licence.

Mr Peter said he had a letter from Mrs I. Cope of 122 Station Road objecting to the intensification of use of the premises. She mentioned damage to the footways, which had become dangerous through vehicles over-running them.

She and her husband suffered from noise, dust and fumes, and she said she could not see how a vehicle and trailer could possibly enter the premises without going on the footway on the opposite side of the road.

Mr Peter said he had to take into account the use of surrounding land, whether there was a material change, the number of authorised vehicles, the arrangements for parking, the nature and times of use. That did not include loading, but it did include maintenance and the ways of entering and leaving the site.

Alan Walker, Mrs Cope's sonin-law, said she lived in a double-fronted house, which had its principal rooms within six feet of the highway. The garden backed on to Mr Poole's premises. The vehicles had to cross the nearby level crossing and this amplified noise.

He agreed in cross-examination that the surrounding area was very much used for indust rial purposes and that the railway ran alongside the garden. He was unable to say whether the workshop and steam cleaning bay had been moved to the rear of the site away from Mrs Cope's garden.

Mr Poole said the artics were 32ft bulk tippers, which would get in and out of the premises more easily than the rigid vehicles.

He felt there was a greater noise problem associated with a neighbouring plant hire firm.

He had repaired the footpath near the access at his own expense after it had been dug up by the water board. He had acquired land to park some of the vehicles elsewhere and he felt he had done everything possible to minimise problems.

Asked to comment on a possible restriction to rigid vehicles only, Mr Poole said keen rates made it difficult to make rigid vehicles pay. The company was working at rates that were lower now than three years ago.

Granting the application, but imposing a condition that no vehicles be maintained along the boundary of the operating centre and Mrs Cope's garden, Mr Peter said there had been no objection from any local authority on planning or environmental health grounds.


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