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• Up to 55 haulage jobs cou be lost to provide gypsies wit a home, if plans by Alyn and Deeside council get the goahead.
Brian Eccleston, director ol Eccleston Tanker Services, is joining other idustrialists to fight for the 38ha Queensferr. site at Chester Road East, next to the River Dee. He runs 14 vehicles hauling fuels, mainly for Ensign Petroleum, which employs seven on the same site at its bulk storage base.
"Everyone here is against it," says Eccleston. "It could put us all out of business with the consequence of up to 55 jobs lost. It won't be easy to find an alternative location on an industrial site—there's nowhere round here for our soil of work, which includes oil blending as we do a lot of woi for the shipping industry. It w cost between E3-25 million to reclaim the site for up to 16 gypsy families. It seems ridiculous."
Other haulage companies which could be affected by tht council plans include Peters Builders (bulk hauliers with tippers), J Jones Haulier (two vehicles) and Fourway Management (four vehicles).