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Residents and businesses can only make representations against 0-licence applications on environmental grounds which affect the use and enjoyment of their own land.
• Prescribed organisations can object on environmental and non-environmental grounds, including site suitability in terms of safety, as well as the suitability of the applicants themselves.
• Only operators and prescribed organisations can appeal against a TC's decision to the Transport Tribunal.
• Complaints about an operating centre can be made by anyone at any time on either environmental or road safety grounds.
• Unless the operator breaches the terms of its 0-licence, TCs normally deal with complaints when the 0-licence is up for renewal every five years.
• Permission for an existing operating centre cannot be refused purely on environmental grounds.
Remember, there is a clear distinction between a representation (which neighbours can make), an objection (which prescribed organisations can make) and a complaint.
Further information:
A Guide to making Objections and Complaints is available from Vosa at www.vosa.gov.uk/vosacorp/repository/GV746.pdf.
More detailed information about challenging 0-licence applications is contained in the 'Goods Vehicles (Licensing of Operators) Act 1995 at www.opsi.gov.uk/ACTS/acts1995/Likpga_19950023en_1 .
The Transport Tribunal provides an explanatory leaflet on appeals, called A Short Guide for Users, at www.transporttribunal.gov.uk under the forms and guidance section.