Site used without licence
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• Waste Management has won authority to operate from premises at Farnworth, Greater Manchester, until the end of the year, despite admitting using the site without licence permission.
The company holds a licence for 145 vehicles and 10 trailers. It was seeking authority to base eight vehicles at Old Hall Street, Farnworth.
The plan attracted opposition from neighbouring residents.
They told North Western Licensing Authority Kenneth Birchall that noise came from the site at all hours. If they slept with their windows open they were disturbed during the night by the revving of engines.
There had been skips parked at the site with waste generating terrible smells and they were concerned that it would attract vermin to the area.
Company engineer George Harper said that vehicles left the yard between 07:00 and 07:30hrs. They could not operate after 17:00hrs as the tips were closed then. None of the waste was toxic or hazardous and instructions would be issued that no skips containing food should be left on the site.
The company had been given notice to quit its previous operating centre in Bolton. It found the new site but a licence application was not made until a week after it had moved in due to an administrative breakdown.
Harper admitted that the company had not applied for in terim authority but had continued to operate.
For Waste Management, Ken Worthy said that the premises were used by other haulage operators and had been used as an operating centre since 1936.
Birchall said that he appreciated the residents' concerns. However, the operating centre had been designated as an industrial area and the majority of vehicles at the site had no restrictions on them.