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Second Nightowl truckstop is at risk
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JUST WEEKS AFTER the Nightowl Alconbury truckstop in Cambridgeshire was given notice of closure, another Nightowl truckstop is under threat (CM 9 and l 6 August).
The company that owns the site of Nightowl truckstop at Junction 1 of the M54 near Wolverhampton has applied for permission to erect 23,000m= of warehousing.
This comes as had news for Allan Evans, managing director of ATE Truck and Trailer Sales, who wanted to buy land next to the truckstop for a truck and trailer sales site.
Evans says his bid for the land was rejected because of the new plans: "Truckstops are renowned for being hard to make profitable, but I believe that by bringing more allied activities to these the sites they could be made to pay."
Nightowl's MD was unavailable for comment on the latest plans, but other staff say that as far as they know there are no plans to close the truckstop.
The owner of the land,Kilmartin Properties, has said that it intends to redevelop its Nightowl sites, but it is unclear whether this will involve closing the truckstops.
The Wolverhampton truckstop was the first of Nightowl's sites; in 2003 it became the first UK truckstop to win the police "secured by design" accreditation.