Haulier fights curfew
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• A haulier has hit back at local authority calls for a curfew on its trucks because of alleged complaints from locals. Chester-based Edge Transport says only one resident has protested about noise in 30 years.
Chester City Liberal Democrat councillor Gordon Smith has reported numerous complaints from residents during the summer months, when many sleep with their bedroom windows open, and wants lorries banned from Edge's depots from 20:00-08:00hrs.
Company boss, Peter Edge, points out that his site lies on a major route into Chester which is used by many others as well as his own company. He also claims that the LiberalDemocrat-controlled council has blocked his plan to move from the present site: "We have had difficulty getting planning permission for another site in Chester from the council and the Welsh Development Agency also refuses to help us — I fear hauliers are being treated as second-class citizens."
• Edge, who runs 14 vehicles, also accuses Councillor Smith and other Liberal Democratic councillors of failing to turn up at a planning meeting where he hoped to secure the go-ahead for an alternative site more than two years ago.