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WHETHER considering applications YV for licences or backings, Traffic Commissioners may have regard to matters arising outside their areas that may affect a service to be provided within their areas, says the Minister of Transport.
Among matters which Commissioners may take into account are the places from which passengers are to come and other services available. They may attach conditions to a licence or backing relating to the part of a service within their own areas,although the observance of the conditions may affect the service outside their areas.
These points were, made by the Minister in • dismissing appeals by Associated. Motorways Against the joint refusal of the East Midland, Eastern and Metropolitan Commissioners to grant intermediate picking-up points on backings for an express service from Cheltenham to Felixstowe, This decision has been given after eight months' delay.
The Minister says he appreciates the value to. the .public of comprehensive networks of long-distance services . provided by operators working together within the terms of their licences. The appellants did not, however, show that the unsatisfied_ need for the intermediate picking-up points was sufficiently strong to justify their introduction.
. The Commissioners in the primary area granted the application.
NO MORE B LICENCES FOR • OPENCAST IN YORKSHIRE
NO additional B licences for opencast coal work_ will be ,granted by the Yorkshire Licensing Authority, . Maj. E. S. Eastwood. He made this clear at Sheffield last week, after hearing applications by four hauliers who wanted shortterm B licences to carry outcrop for Cawood and Wharton, Ltd.
Maj. Eastwood said he could not understand why there was a need for the licences in view of three recent developments—the transfer of coal from road to rail, the reduction in opencast workings, and the amount of unsaleable coal.
He told a Cawood and Wharton representative that he was not prepared to grant other than short-term licences for opencast, and neither he nor his deputy would consider any applications for extra B licences for the work.
HAULAGE DEPOT WOULD " SPOIL VILLAGE
DLANS by the Thistle Transport Co..
Ltd., Carleton, near Carlisle, for a vehicle repair depot at the village of Scothy, have been rejected by the Minister of Housing and Local Government. The Minister has upheld the Border Rural Council's decision.
Thistle Transport appealed against the council's decision last month (The Commercial Motor, November 21).
Giving his decision, the Minister says the scheme would be completely unsuited to the quiet rural character of a comparatively unspoiled village.