Neighbours' video nasties
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• Nottingham
shire tipper operator Eric Elliott Transport has been given 10 days to make written representations about the impact of proposed restrictions at one of its two operating centres.
The proposed measures come after complaints from neighbouring residents and include reducing the times of operation and when maintenance can be carried out.
North Eastern Deputy Traffic Commissioner Mark Hinchliffe was reviewing the use of the campany's operating centre at Hill Road, Gotham, where it has been authorised to operate 14 vehicles
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and three trailers. In addition to proposing to attach restrictive conditions to the licence, the Deputy Commissioner cut the authorisation at Hill Road to 12 vehicles and two trailers.
When the case first came before the Deputy Commissioner, the residents produced 45 minutes of video recordings to back up their complaints about noise, fumes, dust, smell and pollution from the seepage of stinking dirty water and oil into gardens (OW 13-19 February).
After managing director Eric Elliott had claimed that the videos were a "highlight of the nasties”, Hinchliffe commented that the nasties really were nasties. Hinchcliffe said that but for the fact the company had been at the site for some considerable time, he might well have decided that it was not suitable as an operating centre at all. The interests of the company and the residents were clearly irreconcilable.