Five years between reviews
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• Once an operating centre has been reviewed under the environmental provisions in the continuous licensing provisions, a further review cannot not take place for five years.
This was made plain by West Midland Traffic Commissioner John Mervyn Pugh. when he attached agreed conditions to the two-vehicle licence held by A&C Edwards & Sons, of Maesbury, near Oswestry, at a Birmingham public inquiry.
The Commissioner was reviewing the firm's operating centre following complaints from the residents of a neighbouring property.
He said that he was required to consider whether the operating centre continued to be environmentally suitable, and if it was not suitable, whether conditions could be attached that would make it so.
The hearing was adjourned for a period for discussions between the parties after Mervyn Pugh had commented that environmental cases were always difficult.
There were only winners and losers, and he could not please everyone. It would be far better if an amicable arrangement could be conic to, he said. When the hearing was resumed, Ian Lucas, for the firm, said it had been agreed that the vehicles would not drive on part of the parking area, that parked vehicles would be at least 10 feet from the boundary fence and that the times of work and loading be restricted.
Placing the agreed conditions and undertakings on the licence, Mervyn Pugh warned that any breach of those conditions could lead to disciplinary action being taken.
It would be far better if an amicable arrangement could be come to