Dowell keeps village site
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• A haulier has won a fight to go on operating from the Suffolk village which has been his base for 24 years, despite protests from a district council and seven local residents.
Alexander Dowell, who owns A Dowell and Son (Bury), wanted to continue operating nine vehicles and trailers from a depot in Mill Lane, Woolpit, Bury St Edmunds (CM 21 January), but had been opposed by Mid-Suffolk District Council.
The case was reheard by Eastern Licensing Authority Brigadier Compton Boyd, after the Transport Tribunal had set aside a previous decision by the then LA John Mervyn Pugh. Dowell was given a licence for five years subject to five conditions. Boyd admitted that he had been operating for many years and had a real stake in the site, but he told
him it was not an ideal operating centre by any stretch of the imagination.
The conditions imposed are: There will be no parking in Mill Lane; no vehicles will enter or leave the operating centre between 23:00hrs and 06:00hrs except that there can be three vehicle movements per week between 05:00hrs and 06:00hrs; no vehicle is to enter or leave on a Sunday or a Bank Holiday except for two movements per day between 10:00hrs and 17:00hrs; maintenance will be carried out only between movement times; vehicles leaving or entering the operating centre will do so in a forward direction only.