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• Local residents have failed to get restrictions placed on Amec's night-time operations following its acquisition of Hawker Siddeley Transmissions of Castle Donington, Leics.
Amec had applied for a new licence for 20 vehicles and five trailers, based at Newbould Drive, Castle Donington: there were environmental representations from four local residents.
Director Barry Bucknell said that the operation, which involved contracting work for the National Grid, would remain virtually the same as Hawker Siddeley's.
Only three to five vehicles would regularly operate from Castle Donington; the remainder were ex-Army fourwheel-drive Bedfords which were used on sites throughout the UK.
Less maintenance would need to be carried out at Castle Donington as the site vehicles would in future be serviced at the nearest Amec depot.
The residents had been concerned that more than the eight vehicles regularly used by Hawker Siddeley would operate from Castle Donington.
Bucknell said the company occasionally had to work a seven-day week to maintain essential electricity supplies.
Granting a licence, with a condition prohibiting parking in the approach road, Eastern Licensing Authority Brigadier Compton Boyd said it was clear that there was resentment that Castle Donington had been allowed to grow into an industrial village, but that was a decision that had already been made by the planners.
He said that Amec was more environmentally conscious than most of the operators he had come across.