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17th May 2007, Page 36
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with strid conditions •••*1-0 A MAN WITH close links to a company that was refused an 0-licence has been granted one to operate three LGVs after he convinced a Traffic Commissioner he is not running a phoenix business.

However, operator Alfred Purvis must provide North-Eastern TC Tom Macartney with his first six months of accounts after the IC expressed concern over how Purvis has set up Nationwide Plant.

Purvis had applied for a restricted licence and was relying on financial support from his wife to begin work as a sole trader. He is also company secretary for an Essex-based business called Nationwide Reclamation & Remediation Contracts (NRRC).

According to Fred Randle for Purvis. NRRC director Bernadette Reilly was refused an 0-licence in October 2005. Randle said Reilly and her husband John had their licences revoked for another business, North London Developments, in January 2003. John Reilly is still listed on the disqualified directors register at Companies House. Purvis told the Cambridge public inquiry he thought it unfair that he was being judged for Reilly's past as it was before his time.

However, Macartney said he was made uneasy by the fact that Purvis would be leasing plant vehicles from NRRC for his new business, as well as dealing with the day-to-day finances of NRRC as its company secretary. He was concerned that Nationwide Plant might be acting as a front for NRRC and trading as a "phoenix company". He was also alarmed about Purvis's lack of evidence of a business plan.

The TC concluded:-I think you are probably being genuine and probably you can make this business work. But I have a very uneasy feeling about it. You are closely linked up to Bernadette Reilly. She's giving you cheaper vehicles than you can get anywhere else [and] four months' credit holiday.

-What I'm going to do is trust you and ask you to show me your accounts at the end of six months' trading—and! hope they are all right."


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