Whalley cuts Al to six
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%MP Frederick Whal
tern LA ley has allowed
Entergold, trading as Al Waste, authority to move its vehicles to two new operating centres, but he has only granted authority for six of its 16 vehicles,
Entergold held a licence based at Bleach Grounds Quarry, Market Flat Lane, Lingerfield. It had applied to base one vehicle at Harrogate Rugby Club and 15 vehicles and a trailer at Jubilee Mills, Copgrove, Harrogate.
Managing director Brian Morrell agreed that vehicles had been kept without authority at a site in Ripley. Bleach Grounds was a waste transfer, reclamation and land-fill site and the local authority ordered the company to stop using the site. The Ripley site was then used as a transfer site and for the maintenance of the vehicles. Morrell admitted that the Traffic Area had not been notified about the change of maintenance facilities — but said he had not appreciated the seriousness of parking vehicles away from the authorised operating centre until he read reports of action taken by the LA in the trade press. Since November all vehicles had been parked at the operating centre authorised on the interim licence.
Morrell agreed that the company were only authorised to operate five vehicles and that as many as 12 vehicles could have been operated at any one time since November 1990.
Asked why he had not asked for the authorised number of vehicles to be increased, Morrell said that he had done so in a phone call to the Traffic Area. With hindsight, he realised he should have written a letter.
Whalley said he was only prepared to authorise a total of five vehicles and one trailer at Jubilee Mills and one vehicle at Harrogate Rugby Club. Any further illegal operation of vehicles would probably result in the revocation of the licence, warned the LA.