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Red faces over Gloucestershire truck ban plan

24th August 2006, Page 10
24th August 2006
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GLOUCESTERSHIRE County Council has bowed to pres sure from operators and will launch a consultation process on restricting truck movements on 25% of its roads.

The council wants a 9pm5am truck ban on every road within the Cotswolds Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty apart from the A40 and A417 A 7.5-tonne limit would be imposed on all minor roads within the area and on some B-roads (CM June 15). The local Freight Quality Partnership (FOP) will discuss the plan on 5 September.

Stan Waddington, council cabinet member for the envi ronment, says that the deci sion to hold the "first FOP meeting in months" was taken after the council's strategy "went off the rails following negative reaction from the haulage industry after we first announced it in June. Loca hauliers came to me and sai( we hadn't considered thei commercial needs.

"We always planned to pu this out to consultation, but per haps we should have spoken tâ–  the industry about t earlier."

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