Duration cut for non-compliance
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• The licence held by Peter Athur and Nun Morgan, trading as Arthur & Morgan, of Killay, Swansea was renewed for three months only, after South Wales Licensing Authority John Mervyn Pugh heard complaints from West Glamorgan County Council and neighbouring residents that the firm was not complying with environmental conditions imposed on the licence.
The firm had sought renewal in respect of six vehicles and 10 trailers. The licence contained conditions prohibiting the parking of authorised vehicles in the street within a kilometre of the operating centre in Goetre Fawr Road, and prohibiting them from reversing in or out of the operating centre.
Evidence was given by the county council that there was not always room for the authorised vehicles at the centre because of the firm's activities in buying and selling vehicles.
Local residents complained about the personal danger and the deterioration in the quality of life caused by the firm's operations. Their spokeswoman said she had seen the licensed vehicles reversing into the road at 06:00hrs.
Mervyn Pugh said that the 50 or so vehicles on the premises at any one time arising from the dealing operation were not within his powers.
After Alm Morgan had given an assurance that the condition would be complied with in the future, Mervyn Pugh granted a licence until the end of November for six vehicles and eight trailers, on condition that no more than four vehicles and eight trailers be at the operating centre at any one time.