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ibandoned site still in 'use'
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• It does not matter if the "use" of a site as an operating centre has been tindoned in planning terms — may not be abandoned for e purposes of Regulation 22 )(c) of The Goods Vehicles )perators' Licences, Qualificains and Fees) Regulations This has been decided by est Midland LA John Mervyn igh, who had taken legal !vice on the matter when he jected an objection on planng grounds to a change of ierating centre by A M Jactes (Trailers) as invalid. The company had sought authority to move its operating centre for six vehicles and trailers to Lenton Bray, Blackhorse Road, Exhall. Nuneaton and Bedworth Borough Council objected, on the grounds that the land in question was a fuel depot and did not have the necessary planning permission for use as an operating centre. The council also said that there had been numerous complaints from local residents about noise, dust and fumes.
Director Tony Jacques said that the site owners had operated vehicles from there since 1946 — Robert Maudlin, for the council, said there was no evidence that the site had been used as an operating centre.
He said that that use had long since been abandoned.
Mervyn Pugh said that it did not matter if it had been abandoned in planning terms. He had been legally advised that the use of an operating centre, for the purposes of Regulation 22, could not be abandoned.
Jacques said that the owner's own son, trading as Wentworth Fuels, had an operating centre at the site for one vehicle, and he was not the only operator using the site.
Jacques understood that the council was interested in buying the site.