Parks Haulage allowed to expand operation

Commercial Motor
September 17, 2007

Residents who bought plots of land and built homes next to a rural haulage yard have lost their battle to stop the operator expanding.

Keith Parks, proprietor of Parks Haulage, has been given the go-ahead to keep up to eight trucks and 10 trailers at his County Durham depot despite claims that expansion would damage the value of nearby houses.

One resident, whose designer home overlooks the yard in The Avenue, Burnhope, told a public inquiry earlier this year: "If any more wagons are allowed onto this site it will prevent people even considering buying our properties. The only way to sell would be to reduce house prices and that would cost us thousands of pounds."

Parks Haulage employs nine people and currently operates five vehicles transporting scrap metal around the country.

Granting its application, North-East Traffic Commissioner Tom MacCartney noted that the haulage business had been in operation since 1969, when it was surrounded by fields. MacCartney also refused to impose a restriction on its operating times.

"The resident chose to buy plots of land and build homes knowing they would be living next door to an operating centre," he concluded.




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