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Skip firm licence cut because of unauthorised centre
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THE USE OF AN unauthorised operating centre has led to the 0-licence held by a Selkirk skip hire operator being cut from two vehicles to one. In addition, Scottish Traffic Commissioner Joan Aitken has imposed a string of environmental conditions on the use of the authorised operating centre.
Daniel and Kenneth Young, trading as Daniel R Young & Son, of Glenwood, Selkirk, had been called before theTC at a Selkirk disciplinary inquiry.
She criticised the firm for an inaccurate licence application in 2001; for placing a misleading advertisement; and for its "self-serving" approach to treating two separate properties as one.
The firm did not have authority to use "the yard" and a variation application had to be made. She curtailed the licence to one vehicle and suspended the second vehicle from being used on this or any 0licence. This curtailment would last until a variation application was lodged with the Traffic Area Office and she had granted that application.
The TC rejected environmental complaints by neighbours about noise and visual intrusion. She was struck that in a village where neatness was at a premium, given its conservation status, there appeared to be some community support for the retention of the site as the base of Young's skip vehicles.
However, she imposed a number of conditions, limiting the size of the vehicle, requiring it to enter and leave in forward gear, stipulating where it should park, prohibiting loaded skips being taken to the site, and banning maintenance at the site.
The TC said she expected operators to be good neighbours and to be sensitive to neighbours who were worried about CVs. On the other hand, residents had to understand that transport firms played a part in the lifeblood of the economy.