Al wins despite the objections
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• North Eastern Deputy Licensing Authority Norman Moody has renewed the licence held by Frederic Handley, trading as Al Plant and Haulage (York), despite objections from North Yorkshire County Council and Selby District Council.
The two local authorities accepted that Handley was doing his best to find new premises.
He has a 15-vehicle national licence, with seven vehicles at Langwith House Farm and eight at the Elvington Industrial Estate.
Handley told the LA that he had operated from Langwith Farm for 11 years. About two years ago he was told that planning permission was required and was unlikely to be granted. Two months ago he had been served with an enforcement notice but had appealed against it. He had bought land with the intention of moving but planning permis sion for that was refused. Consequently he purchased the Elvington site and planned to move his whole business there, providing permission could be obtained to build a bungalow on the site. The problem at the moment was one of security. The security fence at Elvington was not complete and he would be unable to fully supervise the site until the bungalow was built.
Questioned by James Willis for the district council, Handley said that no vehicles were currently kept at Elvington, because when parked there they were vandalised and their batteries were stolen. He agreed that the Heslington site was unsuitable as an operating centre.
For the county, Reginald King said access to Langwith House was along a narrow single track road which was unsuitable for heavy vehicles. Substantial damage had been done and in the last two years the county had spent 26,000 patching it. He agreed it was a public road without any weight restriction.
Willis said the district council was objecting on the grounds of the noise and the vibration caused by the vehicles travelling through Heslington Village. He accepted there were no complaints from within the immediate vicinity of the operating centre, some 3km from the village.