Britvic's moves curbed • Local residents succeeded in having a
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string of environmental conditions imposed when Britvic Soft Drinks successfully applied to base 11 vehicles at the Bass Brewery at Alton.
The representatives complained to Western Traffic Commissioner Christopher Heaps about noise from the loading and movement of vehicles, especially in the keg loading bay.
Britvic's distribution manager Ruth Beadle said that the intention was not to have stock on site but that the 11 vehicles would be loaded directly from artics bringing the produce from Abingdon. The brewery was an established operating centre for Tradeteam, which was authorised to operate 20 vehicles and 70 trailers from the site without restriction. The Tradeteam vehicles were double shifted and they were loaded at the front of the building. The Britvic vehicles would be kept and loaded at the rear. They would make only one journey each day with no regular nighttime or weekend work. For Britvic, Chris Butterworth pointed out that this was an established operating centre on a long-established industrial site and that numerous planning consents had been granted for the development of the brewery in recent years. A Hampshire County Council traffic survey had shown that several hundred heavy vehicles unconnected with the site passed the entrance each day.
Butterworth maintained that the effect of granting the application would be minimal.
Granting the application, Heaps said he had no hesitation in finding the site suitable for use as an operating centre. However, he imposed conditions that the authorised vehicles should not exceed 21 tonnes, that they be parked at the rear of the building, that they turn left when leaving the site and return from the same direction, that no maintenance be carried out except in emergencies and he restricted the hours of operation to 06:30-21:00hrs Monday to Friday, with operation allowed on up to six weekends per year, each of which had to be notified to the Traffic Area.