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A rules against ome maintenance
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COMPLAINTS by the West Midland County Council that Wilfred Ward, trading as W. Ward & Son Transport, has not been complying with the terms of his licence, lead to his appearance at disciplinary proceedings before the West Midland Licensing Authority, Arthur Crabtree, at Birmingham last week.
Mr Ward holds a licence for ni e vehicles and 10 trailers with a declared operating centre on the Harman Industrial tate, Willenhall.
or the County, Michael Hapgood, a principal engineer, said use was being made of 47 Wood Street, Fallings Heath, Wednesbury. Those premises were in a residential area and planning permission existed for a garage for one vehicle only, conditional upon other vehicles being kept elsewhere.
However, planning enforcement proceedings have been taken because a caravan had been put on the Wood Street site to act as an office. Vehicles were being left outside and these were either parked on spare land or taken home by the drivers and diesel tanks had been installed. That enforcement action had been upheld on appeal. In evidence, Mr Ward said the vehicles were kept at the Harman Industrial Estate. Although three drivers did take vehicles home, maintenance was carried out at Wood Street. The enforcement notice gave him 12 months in which to move, and Mr Ward was seeking planning permission for the maintenance to be carried out at alternative premises in Willenhall.
He was quite happy to tell the drivers they could no longer take their vehicles home as it was costing him a lot of money in diesel fuel.
Mr Hapgood said it would require very strict arrangements over vehicles brought in for maintenance at Wood Street. The planning permission was not to be breached, and Mr Ward appeared to have realised that his business had outgrown Wood Street.
Recording a warning, Mr Crabtree said it was a term of the licence that the vehicles must be kept at the Harman Industrial Estate. Furthermore, drivers must not take their vehicles home, and Mr Ward had to abide by that ruling.