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Breaches mean interim licences will not be extended to full ones

7th October 2004, Page 33
7th October 2004
Page 33
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LAST year two operators were granted interim authority to operate from an industrial estate at Wormley, subject to a number of environmental conditions.

Now the South Eastern and Metropolitan Traffic Commissioner Christopher Heaps has refused to grant them full licences from the site because of breaches in conditions.

Nathan Williams, trading as Ant Scaffolding, had sought a licence for five vehicles and Mark Lewis, trading as MAL Scaffolding, one for three vehicles. The applications were opposed by Surrey County Council and Waverley Borough Council. They were concerned about the access and that eight vehicles would have an adverse environmental effect on the vicinity.

The TC was told that local residents had complained that both operators had breached the conditions imposed on their interim licences.

Refusing the applications with effect from the end of the year, theTC said that Williams' operating centre lay immediately adjacent to the rear boundaries of residential properties and Lewis' immediately to the west of them. A planning application by Williams to use his site as a scaffold yard had been refused.

The TC said there was evidence before him that important conditions had been breached and he now had to consider whether any environmental conditions imposed would he observed.

Concluding that the sites were unsuitable, the TC said any further breaches of existing conditions could lead to action being taken against the interim licences, which remain in force until the end of the year.