)LA accuses Parliament of 'dirty work'
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North Western deputy tensing Authority John Levin t week accused Parliament playing a dirty trick by noting people to complain about alage operations without king it clear just what their hts of complaint are.
He said this when he renew :hout modification or restricn the national licence of GC diem and Company for 26 hides and 15 trailers based Parsonage Road, Walkden, ncashire, despite an objecn from Salford City Council d representations from resints.
Levin ruled that Salford's jection was invalid after the mpany's counsel, Jonathan wton, said that its letter of jection made no reference any section of the Act or regulations, or identified y appropriate ground for obtion or representation. He said the council's allegan that there would be a aerial change of use, be cause of an increase in the number of vehicles, showed it even misunderstood the application.
Levin also ruled that out of a large number of people present, only residents of Numbers One to 13 Parsonage Road and 509 Hilton Lane could be regarded as being within the vicinity of the operating centre.
Residents complained of being unable to sleep because of the noise of vehicles in the early hours, about vehicles being parked on the pavement and about a faulty drain which resulted in dery running down the road.
John Green, of 509 Hilton Lane, produced a photograph of an articulated vehicle stuck across the road but admitted that he was aware the the lorry's air lines had been cut and that there had been a lot of vandalism to the company's vehicles. Redfern told the court that 11 cases of vanda lism have been reported to the police.
All the residents agreed that the problems had been going on over the past five years.
Levin said there is little he could do about a straight renewal. He is satisfied there has been no material or significant change and the number of articulated lorries being operated has reduced.