Thumbs down for removals firm bid
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• A second attempt by Stuart Lowndes Removals to use a site at Sandbach in Cheshire as an operating centre, has been turned down by North Western Deputy Licensing Authority Kenneth Birchall, Last July the company had applied to renew its sevenvehicle licence with two operating centres, one at Congleton, and one at Hind Heath Road, Sandbach.
The latter had been opposed by Cheshire County Council and there had been a petition from local residents.
Acting LA Keith Waterworth had refused to sanction the site, saying that its use was unacceptable on road-safety grounds (CM 23-29 July 1987).
Before the DLA, the firm was seeking to change the operating centre on its licence to two sites, one in Crewe (where three vehicles were to be based), and the Sandbach site, (where two vehicles would be kept).
For Lowndes, it was said that the current application was for considerably fewer vehicles and also sought to use a different part of the Hind Heath Road site, the forecourt.
Cheshire County Council again opposed pointing out that, to enter the site, vehicles usually reversed from Proctor's Lane across Hind Heath Road.
The DLA was told that there had been planning permission for a furniture depository on
the site. Conditions on the planning consent, however, had been designed to ensure that vehicles entered and left in a forwards direction, something that was presently impossible because of the restricted access. Another condition required the demolition of the existing building by September.
Refusing the application, in respect of the Sandwich site, Birchall said that he had concluded that it was not suitable. In granting authority for the use of the Crewe operating centre, he indicated that the firm would be given interim authority to park five vehicles there, pending its application for full variation for that number to be kept at Crewe.