New fruit machine controls
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• overnight controls have been placed on a Liverpool wholesale fruit and vegetable merchant's depot, following representations from 30 residents living close to the city's Edge Lane fruit and vegetable market.
The Blundell and Runnier Group won authority to renew its licence and to increase the number of vehicles at the market from 12 to 14.
Residents' complaints of being unable to sleep owing to noise from fork-lift trucks. transistor radios, foul language, fridge motors and engines being revved up led North Western deputy Licensing Authority John Levin to ban movements of vehicles on the site between llpm and 5am. Company counsel Johnathan Lawton said Blundell and Rirruner has sympathy with the residents as the market is in the middle of a residential area.
Of three subsidiary companies operating from the market, two operating three vehicles each created no problem as they parked their vehicles in the centre of the market.
However, Henvale Wholesale's premises are located on the outer perimeter and as there is no available parking space on the centre parking area, the eight Henvale vehicles are parked near the perimeter wall.
Managing director Len Rimmer said he is anxious to move the Henvale operation. partly because of the state of cleanliness of the market. One of its main customers has threatened to take its business elsewhere.
Henvale's work for the Coop necessitates two vehicles leaving at midnight, the others being loaded throughout the night to depart between 2am and 3am.
Rimrner told Levin that Henvale is not responsible for all the noise. Other companies start work at the market at 2ant, and complaints have already prompted the company to instruct the employees to make as little noise as possible.
He undertook to surrender the eight vehicles at Liverpool specifically for the Henvale work within 12 months.