Gore to get no more
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• Western Licensing Authority Major General John Carpenter has refused AH Gore's application for 12 additional trailers following objections to the suitability of the only access road to its operating centre.
The company currently holds a licence for 33 vehicles and 42 trailers in possession with 19 vehicles and three trailers to be acquired, with a base at High Littleton, Bristol. The application for additional trailers was opposed by Avon County Council and Wansdyke District Council, and there were representations from nine residents living along the private access road.
The local authorities maintained that the road was not suitable for very heavy vehicles, and the residents complained about the number of vehicle movements along it.
Managing director Roger Osbourne said the additional trailers were required because the changing nature of the company's business required the use of articulated vehicles. There was ample accommodation on the existing site for all the company's trailers, though they could be based elsewhere if necessary. He felt that they would have little extra impact as a public weighbridge on the site was already used by the police, the Department of Transport and other hauliers. If the application was refused another alternative might be to reduce the number of vehicles on the licence and increase the number of trailers by an equivalent amount.
Refusing the application, Carpenter said he felt he ought not to authorise any more vehicles from the site, particularly as the company could organise its operations in a different way.