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• Liverpool ice cream manufacturer Stella Products has won unrestricted renewal of its licence, despite complaints from neighbours.
The company had sought a new restricted licence for 10 vehicles and two trailers based at Barlow Lane, Fazakerley, having let its previous licence expire.
Evidence was given by the residents that when vehicles came down the lane they came dangerously close to the houses.
The road was too narrow for large vehicles, which had to mount the pavements to pass obstructions. Houses shook when vehicles passed, and the residents were disturbed in the early hours. The vehicles travelled too fast and the drivers did not seem to give the residents any respect at all. Complaints have been made to the council and the police but they did not seem to want to know.
For the company, Michael Cunningham said that the residents were not being disturbed by the activities at the operating centre itself, or by vehicles in the operating centre. They were complaining about the traffic going up and down Barlow Lane, and they could not distinguish which vehicles were causing the problems.
Director Eddie Mancuso said raw materials were delivered to the site so whether it was an operating centre or not the deliveries would still be made.
If the company did not distribute with its own vehicles the product would have to be collected, which would increase vehicle movements. Drivers were instructed to behave themselves and to disturb the neighbours as little as possible.
There were a number of tenants with Operators' Licences on the site, which was designated for industrial use.
Following a site visit, North Western Deputy Licensing Authority John Levin said he felt that the road was adequate for access to the site but he had no power to prevent other vehicles calling at the premises; the roads were there to be used. The basic problem was not the use of the road, but people parking on it. He felt there was insufficient evidence of environmental damage to justify putting any condition on the licence.