Tribunal considers planning question
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ITIE TRANSPORT Trihu li.is been asked for guidat 011 the weight Licensi Authorities should give local planning authoriti wishes when decidi whether to grant operator's licence.
But Tribunal special pa member Robert Owen tu Basildon District Council which had brought the t case that it was reserv: its decision for further cons (.•ration. "The appeal raise! number of issues of some i portance-, he said.
Owen said that since Jt 1984 LAs were empowered refuse licence applications environmental grounds. 1 he admitted: "At present doesn't seem proper for LA to refuse because planning authority would fuse planning permission the site."
Appealing against t granting of Rees Haulal first licence at Crays Hill, 1 lericay, Essex by fora Metropolitan LA Antho Robertson, Basildon's prit pal administration offi, Brian Yeomans stated t general guidance on the n legislation was needed.
At Rees Haulage's pul inquiry last June, the granted a new licence, Basildon objected and • company had no plann permission for the site.
This meant that the cc pany could start work wait for an enforcem4 notice from the council tell it to stop or appeal to refusal for planning peril sion, when it was tun down.
Planning considerations factors which the LA sho study on environmental c; co-incide, Yeomans argued Yeomans said: "If a lice is granted as in this case, . then the operator falls foul the planning system and peals, obviously the coin has to defend the appeal."
Appealing against the L decision, Yeomans also that Robertson had -in directed himself" when he nored the requirement make a subjective plann judgment of the environm nil suitability of the site.