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Restrided licence for recycler

2nd November 2006
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A RECYCLING FIRM that illegally traded on another company's licence and then continued to operate after interim authority was refused is likely to be granted a restricted 0-licence.

However, the licence depends on the supplying of sound financial information and accepting that ignorance of the law will not be accepted as an excuse in the future.

Meanwhile the firm. Matthews Waste & Recycling (Swansea) has been granted interim authority to continue to operate by Welsh Traffic Commissioner David Dixon.

For the company, Paul Carless told a Cardiff public inquiry that Dennis Connor had purchased a company called Dunberg in March, which had a chequered maintenance history. He purchased the assets and goodwill of Matthews Recycling, which had lost its licence earlier in the year after going into liquidation. He intended to use its premises as an operating centre and the assets enabled him to recycle copper cabling for which Matthews held a licence. Connor set up Matthews Waste & Recycling using the Dunberg licence. The latter company had been purchased just for its 0-licence and Connor now accepted that was wrong.

Connor accepted that Dunberg's maintenance record had been poor. He said the vehicles had been in poor condition but that had been addressed and they were now checked when they came off tips. He admitted that when interim authority was refused he had continued to operate.

The TC pointed out that when a company was purchased the law was that the purchaser also purchased the history Carless said Connor was a businessman who had dabbled in operator licensing without knowing what he was doing.

Revoking the Dunberg licence, the TC said the company had an unsatisfactory maintenance record with 16 prohibitions, no inspection records and no driver defect reports. The company had been sold on without C'onnor realising everything that went with it.

He warned that if Matthews was granted a full licence, ignorance would not be accepted in the future —and if the company was called to public inquiry again there would not be much mercy.

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Locations: Cardiff

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