Licence curbs eased
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• Haulier and farmer WA Pick & Son has had environmental curbs on its licence eased, despite protests from local residents.
The firm had applied to North Eastern Deputy Licensing Authority Brian Horner to renew its national licence for six vehicles and 12 trailers based at Grafton Grange, Morton-cum-Grafton, and Close House, Kirkhammerton. The DLA was asked to remove conditions imposed on the Close House site restricting vehicle movements to 06:00-19:00hrs Mondays-Fridays and to 06:0012:00hrs on Saturdays, except in emergencies and at harvest time.
June Leather, of Roseleigh, Kirkhammerton, said the residents were not convinced that the conditions ought to be lifted. She agreed with Gary Hodgson, acting for WA Pick, that she had not made representations at the time the conditions were imposed.
Harold Blacker, of Elm House, Kirkhammerton, complained about being woken up at six o'clock in the morning.
He felt that the firm should only be allowed to work between 08:00 and 17:00 hrs.
Thomas Pick, a partner, said that if the company worked those hours it would be out of business. He wanted the conditions to be lifted because they were restricting the firm's business.
He proposed that they be lifted for vehicles turning right out of the operating centre, thus avoiding the representors' properties, plus one journey a day to collect silage from one of their farms in the village where it was necessary for the vehicle to turn left.
In granting renewal with conditions as suggested by Pick, Horner said that Pick's was not the only haulier in the village.
The firm was only a small part of an overall problem and it would be unfair to penalise just one operator.