Haulier's noise plea is 'without merit'
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• An appeal by William Rogers, who trades as Rogers Transport, of Stratfielcl Saye, near Reading, against the imposition of a condition on his licence restricting the times of movement of authorised vehicles at his operating centre, has been dismissed by the Transport Tribunal as being "wholly without merit".
In rejecting an application for costs by Basingstoke & Deane Borough Council, the Tribunal said it accepted that it had not been a case of Williams "buying time" by submitting an unmeritorious appeal, as he had been bound by the condition since the public inquiry. If this had been a case of seeking to "buy time", it would have had no hesitation in awarding costs.
However, it felt that this was an appropriate case to use as a warning to appellants, and to those who
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The condition was one of a number imposed involving a prescribed route, and restricting the times of movement, parking and maintenance of vehicles, when Rogers was granted an international licence for two vehicles and four trailers based at Herriots Farm, Stratfield Saw.
In imposing the conditions, Western Licensing Authority Air Vice Marshal Ronald Ashford said he had no doubt that the noise created by the movement of heavy vehicles would be sufficient to wake people in the neighbouring cottages.
It seemed to him that people had a right to sleep every day and that the movement of Rogers' vehicles in the early hours would create noise and disturb people.