Gray to find new centre
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• Doune, Perthshire-based Robert Gray and Partners, trading as H&R Gray, has six months in which to find a new operating centre. Scottish Deputy Traffic Commissioner Richard McFarlane decided that Gray's present site was unsuitable on environmental grounds.
The firm had applied for an increase of vehicles and trailers at Mackeanston Farm; four residents had objected.
Robert Gray senior, a partner, said he had been in haulage for 35 years. The operation at the farm was originally purely agricultural but had now developed into haulage. Vehicles left early to meet customer demand. The company was in the process of acquiring the haulage side of another business in Kirkcaldy. The farm site was well placed and there was no suitable alterna tive within a reasonable distance.
The residents complained about noise, visual intrusion, road safety and water pollution.
Refusing the increase in authorisation, and directing that the operating centre be deleted from the licence at the end of June, McFarlane said this was the third application for an increase since the licence was granted for two vehicles and one trailer in November 1993, and he was concerned how quickly the fleet had grown in the context of a rural area.