M & A penalty over parking
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• Failures to comply with a condition banning the parking of vehicles in the street outside the operating centre of Swansea-based Morgan & Arthur, has led South Wales Licensing Authority John Mervyn Pugh to take action against the firm's licence.
In prematurely terminating the licence, so that it expires at the end of June 1989, and imposing a more stringent condition prohibiting the parking of authorised vehicles, within half a mile (0.8km) of the operating centre in Goytre Fawr Road, Pugh warned the firm that it must put its house in order or face losing its licence.
Local residents claimed that the firm's vehicles had been frequently left unattended in the street for protracted periods.
For the firm, Geoffrey Williams said that at a public inquiry in June, a partner, Alan Tudor Morgan, had actually volunteered the condition banning street parking. He had been confused about what actually constituted "parking", however. Morgan had assumed that "parking" had a degree of permanence attached to it.
Morgan said that he now accepted that his definition of parking had been wrong. Steps had been taken to make parking in the street unnecessary, the drivers having been instructed to telephone in when about a mile (1.6km) from base to see if there was room to park at the depot.