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• The 12-vehicle PSV operator's licence held by B S Williams Ltd. trading a Southern Motorways, has been renewed for two years only by South Eastern Traffic Commissioner Randall Thornton.
Havant Borough Council and local residents had asked for the licence to be restricted on environmenta grounds (CM, April 16), In: Thornton said he was restricting the duration of the licence to give the company a probationary period' to prove the adequacy of its maintenance arrangements and not for any envi ronmental reasons.
Because of the lack of space and manoeuvrability at the company's Emsworth, Hampshire depot he did impose a condition that no double-deck vehicles be kept there.
Thornton said the company's good repute is not it doubt, and it meets the requirement in relation to professional competence.