Six months to find somewhere to park
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• If Shadwell Construction cannot find a suitable operating centre for its 24-tonne vehicle within six months, it will be deleted from the company's licence.
This was made plain by North Eastern Deputy Licensing Authority John Hampton, when the company applied to renew its three-vehicle licence at a Leeds public inquiry. The DLA was only prepared to grant renewal in respect of the two vehicles in possession for a six-month period. Vehicle examiner John Pietden said that the operating centre, at Shadwell, Leeds, consisted of a car garage with limited parking, situated in a small residential cul-de-sac. The company's two vehicles were a 7.5-tonner and a 24twiner. Parking facilities were unsuitable for HGVs.
Director Richard Greenwood said the cul-de-sac consisted of an unmade private road, with four houses including his own. One of the residents had signed a letter to say that he was happy with the parking arrangements. The 7.5-tonner was parked at the operating centre each night. However, since January the 24-tonner had been kept on site, though the actual site had changed three times since then. A bush would have to be taken out if the 24-tonner was parked at the operating centre.
Hampton commented that if the 24-tonner never returned to the declared operating centre, it did not have an operating centre. He was satisfied that there would be parking problems if it was brought back to the centre.
Greenwood said the corn
pany had held a licence from Shadwell since 1974 and there had never been any problems.
Removing the vehicle to be acquired from the licence, Hampton said he was not satisfied about the suitability of the operating centre. There were no facilities for inspection and maintenance there, and the company was parking vehicles on a private unmade road over which the other residents had rights of way. He was renewing the licence for six months to give the company a chance to find a fresh operating centre for the 24-tonner,