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newcomers without proper facilities
IT was inappropriate for prospective hauliers to run their buSinesses from private residences unless they had adequate off-the-road vehicle parking facilities and no nuisance was caused to other residents.
This was said on behalf of the Road Haulage Association, Objecting at Manchester on June 24, to a number of applications for new operators' licences. The North Western (Eastern) area of the Association was continuing its campaign of opposing newcomers who did not appear to have suitable operating centres.
Of the eight applications opposed, the objections were withdrawn in five, after the objectors had been satisfied that 'suitable arrangements concerning a proper base had been made.
In the first opposed case, Graham Davidson, of 15 Dunkery Road, Wythensbawe, applied for one vehicle following the purchase of a coal business. The vehicle was operating under interim licence.
Questioned by Mr John Backhouse, for the RHA, Davidson said he lived in a council house opposite a school; the vehicle was parked in the road otitsicle his house overnight. Once a month it was sent to a commercial garage for maintenance and he had applied for planning permission to run the business from his home.
Adjourning the hearing for two months, the North Western Licensing Authority, Mr R. D. HUtchings, said it was clear the arrangements were not satisfactory. If the application was refused outright it would mean that Mr Davidson would have to cease trading and so the adjournment would give him an opportunity to make better arrangements for parking his vehicle. If this had not been done during this period the application would be refused.
Patrick Devine of Nicholas Road, Chorlton-cum-Hardy was granted a licence for 12 months only after undertaking that his vehicle, a tipper, engaged on site work would be parked on site. In ,between jobs, he said, Ft would be kept at the commercial garage where it was maintained.
The LA accepted an RHA submission that, in these circumstances, the commercial garage should be shown as the declared base. He warned Devine that if the vehicle was found to be parked outside his home this would be regarded as a failure of "declaration of intent."
An application by V. 3. Graham of Market Place, Heywood, for one vehicle, was adjourned because of the applicant's illness.
Mr Backhouse said the RHA had reason to believe that it was the applicant's intention to use the vehicle solely in connection with his retail shop. If this proved to be so the objection would be withdrawn.