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Environmental ban could stall trucks in Oxfordshire

26th February 2004
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David Harris reports on one mayor's anti-truck dean-up campaign.

AN OXFORDSHIRE market town's mayor says trucks could be banned from a string of towns along the A44 unless noise and pollution problems can be solved. Jo Graves, mayor of Chipping Norton, says many people in the town want a truck route for through traffic to cut back on the number of trucks passing through. She says: "It's not local hauliers we have a problem with and we appreciate that you have to have lorries and they have to deliver goods, but we now have a very difficult situation. In the end, it is possible there will have lobe a ban, or at least a designated lorry route."

Recent research in Chipping Norton found that levels of nitrogen dioxide in parts of the town were among the highest in west Oxfordshire.

Some anti-truck activists allege this has increased asthma in the town and councillors are asking local doctors for statistics on new asthma cases. Many of the objections are being co-ordinated by the A44A anti-HG V group.

Paul Wellington, managing director of local company WhI Wellington Haulage, says: "I can understand the concerns but we can all object to anything. Lorries are a necessity of life. No lorries, no shops."

Mayor Graves adds that the problem is not just in Chipping Norton. She says: "It's an issue for the whole area and for a series of medieval towns with narrow streets along the A44, including places such as Bourton on the Hill."

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