Dispute over land continues
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• Gwent haulier Francis Marks's bid for substantive licence authority to use an operating centre at Caerphilly, which he currently uses under interim authority, has been adjourned for the second time because of a dispute over
land which his vehicles use to get to the site.
Marks, who trades as FJ Transport, had applied to move his operating centre from Queens Dock, Cardiff, to Rhose Industrial Estate, Bedwas Road, Caerphilly, and at the same time increase his licence from five vehicles and six trailers to seven vehicles and seven trailers. There were representations against the application from MAP Woodcraft (Caerphilly) and a neighbouring resident. A director of MAP, John Pugh, told South Wales Licensing Authority John Mervyn Pugh that there was sufficient space to park five units and six trailers at the site but there was no room for them to manoeuvre. MAP had owned the land since the 1950s.
Mervyn Pugh said he required a solemn undertaking from Marks that until the hearing in September his vehicles and trailers must not be left unattended or Mervyn Pugh: no
uncoupled on the land in question. parking on land.