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• Tempers in North Yorkshire flared this week as local hauliers threatened to pull out of the region if Selby District Council persists in refusing to let them expand.
Hensall-based Norman Lewis Tankers and GW Sissons and Son from Sherburn in Elmet are both taking action against the council after having planning applications for expansion schemes turned down. Between them the companies operate nearly 80 trucks and employ more than 100 staff.
Lewis is threatening job losses if his application continues to be refused: "1 can't close it but I can restrict its activities and expand more and more at sites in Holland and Germany," he says. Lewis already operates in the Netherlands and is looking to open a site in east Germany.
Selby District Council says it refused the expansion plans because granting the application would ruin an open site.
Sissons is about to appeal to the Department of Environment over the council's refusal to grant permission to turn one of its fields into a trailer park. Managing director Bryan Sissons claims he did not receive a fair hearing.
"If we can't build the park we certainly would look at moving to other local areas," he says.