Garden parking thwarted by CC
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• Plans by a Welsh owner-driver to park his tractor unit in his back garden have been thwarted by Gwent County Council and Islwyn Borough Council.
James Johnston, of Crown Lane, Blackwood told South Wales Licensing Authority John Mervyn Pugh that he only wanted to park his tractor unit there at the weekend for what he called safety reasons.
The two councils said there was not enough room for the vehicle to enter and leave in a forward gear over an unmade track at the rear of Johnston's house.
Johnston said that he had not received objections from his neighbours and in 1975 he had a letter from the council saying he could use the rear access for parking a vehicle.
Granting a licence after Johnston agreed to use only premises belonging to Black Vein Transport as his operating centre, Mervyn Pugh warned him that if he parked the unit outside his house he would be called to a disciplinary inquiry for using an unauthorised operating centre.