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Rubble delays depot upgrade
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by Chris Tindall PLANS BY Knowles Transport to upgrade one of its warehouses and smarten up its depot have stalled after the district council accused it of storing unauthorised material for the improvements.
The East Anglian haulage business says the refusal by Fenland District Council to approve planning permission has delayed the construction of high-grade facilities for local businesses to use in the food industry within which the company operates.
But the council maintains that the rubble deposited on the site. which would be used to re-lay the yard, could be used in "uncontrolled processing", resulting in "material harm to the amenities of occupants of the adjoining dwelling...from potential dust and noise pollution".
Knowles Transport wants to upgrade a shed at its Wimblington, Cambridgeshire site which is in poor condition. It insists the building's replacement would not be a bigger warehouse and that the plans have only been delayed because of one neighbour's objection. It adds that it accepted the offer of rubble from a demolition Site for the project and was unaware it had done anything wrong.
In its decision the council says: It is considered that there is too much waste/rubble on site to meet the requirements of the proposed Operation."
It adds that the amount and scale of the material deposited and its unknown source/content mean the correct mechanism for dealing with these above matters" lies outside its remit as the local planning authority.
For the company Ian Ramsay says: We had no idea they would take that view; we just thought rubble's rubble. We are not appealing: we are seeking a meeting with the authority to find out how can we all work to generate benefits for the whole area and the environment."