Modesure wins centre
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• Residents have been told by Eastern Deputy LA Humphrey Lewis that they will have to live with a proposed operating centre for 15 vehicles and two trailers at Elmesthorpe, Leics.
Granting air freight carrier Modesure authority to use the site, he told residents he could understand their unhappiness, but said that planning permission had already been granted.
For the company, Ian Rothera said that it had been operating from Hinckley for the past six years but that site had limited parking.
Resident Doreen Geary main tamed that the entrance and exit from the proposed site was dangerous as it was next to a school and a church.
She said that when the site was previously used as a haulage yard noise from vehicles being loaded had caused a great deal of misery. A traffic examiner said that a great deal of care was needed when entering and leaving the site as there was an incline to the right.
Director Dennis Chesterton sald that the company operates 11 7-5-tonne box vans and has no plan to operate artics, The entrance to the site is in a 40niph zone and drivers would he instructed that vehicles leaving the site must give way to those entering.
Chesterton promised that by the end of the year the company would plant a belt of conifers along the boundary of the operating centre and the field between it and the residents' houses.