P&O Ferrymasters is warned about parking
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• P&O Ferrymasters was called before the Western Traffic Commissioner Philip Brown after the company had been encouraged to park trailers in laybys to prevent travellers occupying them.
Traffic examiner Alan Greenwood said he had made
several visits to Nimrod Read, on the Fern Down Industrial Estate, Bournemouth, and discovered a significant number of trailers in P&L livery parked on the highway.
Divisional managing director Michael Pusey said the company had parking facilities
at yards other than the operating centre, but permission to use one of those sites was terminated by the landlord in June 1999.
Asked about the initial spate of parking on the highway, he said: "1 have made some investigations and it is my understanding that the local council had encouraged parking to help them, as they said the whole area was being developed and they were worried about travellers entering the area."
Warning the company about the breach of its licence conditions, the IC said he had originally considered suspending the licence. However, it was in P860's favour that it had acted swiftly to put matters right. "Because a company is a very large company with a good reputation, it doesn't put it above the law," he told Pusey