12 object to builder's application

23rd September 1966, Page 78

23rd September 1966

Page 78

Page 78, 23rd September 1966 — 12 object to builder's application

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ANORTH DEVON builder failed in his application to the Western deputy Licensing Authority at Exeter this week for a B licence for a five-ton lorry.

E. Grantham and Sons of Ilfracombe, a building business run by Mr. Edward and Mr. Richard Grantham applied for the licence and there were objections from Mr. Kenneth Crabb, an Ilfracombe haulier, and 11 other people.

Mr. D. H. Down, for Grantham and Sons said the firm held a C licence in respect of the vehicle. The application was for the lorry to carry debris and excavation materials within a radius of five miles; building materials within a radius of 10 miles; and roadmaking materials and chippings within a radius of five miles. The application would be operated purely on a part-time basis and the applicant would give an undertaking he would not buy another lorry and not obtain another C licence.

Mr. Richard Grantham said they were continually being asked if they could shift stuff, deliver blocks and take quantities of rubble away.

Mr. Kenneth Crabb said he carried roadmaking, building materials and quarry' materials and he had never refused a job. If he got a lot of work with which he could not cope he would get someone from Barnstaple to help out. There was not sufficient work in the town for another haulier, he said.

Mr. A. C. Caffin, the deputy Licensing Authority, said although the application was modest, it was a new application, and it would be wrong to grant it, unless supported by sufficient evidence. He thought the statutory objection had been made out and he refused the application.

In another case Mr. W. G. Rumsom, a South Molton builder, was granted a B licence for a tipper lorry, the sole use being limited to materials for Archibald Knott and Son, a quarry firm.

Mr. Caffin was told that the objectors were prepared to withdraw as a result of fresh conditions which had been agreed. The conditions were that Mr. Rumsom should undertake not to apply during the current of the B licence for any variation in its term and during that time would not apply for a C licence, in respect of any goods vehicle other than a 15 cwt. van or less.