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• A string of conditions has been imposed on the operating licence of E Hunt & Son (East Bridgford) by Eastern Licensing Authority Brigadier Compton Boyd after Nottinghamshire County Council objected to the firm running 38-tormers.
The company had applied for a licence for nine vehicles and 12 trailers, plus 11 vehicles to be acquired. Ian Rothera, for the company, maintained that there was no material change as that was the number currently authorised. The county, however, maintained there had been a material change because the company was operating 38-tonners instead of 32-tonners as before.
Roger Haggis, of the county's planning and transportation department, said the operating centre was an old-established haulage depot.
The site was a long narrow plot, approximately 110m by 121m. He did not consider it possible to park and manoeuvre more than nine vehicles and eight trailers on the site and there was insufficient room to allow an artic to turn round within the site. He argued that artics had to be reversed in, or out, onto Kneeton Road and the attendant parking of vehicles and trailers in Kneeton Road had an impact on safety.
Trevor Large, who lives next to the site, complained about noise, vibration, dust and fumes.
He said he was being disturbed by vehicles leaving early in the morning.
John Hunt, a director, said his firm operated nine vehicles and 12 trailers, but four trailers were regularly kept at customers' premises overnight. The greater part of the work started at 07:00hrs, he said, but every day there were one or two earlier departures.
There had been vehicles leaving as early as 02:00hrs, either during the potato harvest or in connection with traffic for the construction industry. Generally, vehicles were back between 18:00 and 19:00 hours, but there were as many exceptions as there were in early mornings. There were very few movements on Sundays, but, again, they did occur during the potato harvest. Important customers could be lost if the times of operation were restricted.
Evidence was given by a parish councillor that East Bridgford Parish Council was concerned that the company, as the major employer in the area, should be allowed to continue, particularly as Hunt had shown considerable concern for the village.
Boyd said that though clearly this was not an ideal operating centre, he was satisfied that there was no material change.
He imposed conditions that vehicles must not be parked in Kneeton Road except when others were being marshalled in the operating centre; that . vehicles must not be reversed out of the site; that there must be no maintenance on Sundays or public holidays except in an emergency; that no more than nine vehicles and eight trailers be at the operating centre at any one time; that there be no more than 10 movements a week on Mondays to Fridays before 07:00hrs and no return after 22:00hrs; that there be no more than two movements a month before 07:00hrs on Saturdays and that there be no more than a total of 12 Sunday movements during a year.