Tue Apr 13, 2021 7:50 am
#1840145
Instructor Errant wrote:
May need to think through an alternate strategy.
The description of your issues did make me wonder if we are neighbours!!
We live near a clay quarry - very good relationship with the quarry and their vehicles removing clay, but problems with the third party lorries bringing infill.
A couple of thoughts:
1) The police might want to consider spot checks on the lorries bringing the infill. Whilst not breaking the 7.5T EWR, many of the infill lorries in our area had other issues, from mechanical defects to insecure loads. Even if there's nothing wrong, the time taken on a spot check can act as a deterrent.
2) Check for any planning conditions on the site being accessed to see if it had a maximum number of vehicle movements, and/or any restrictions on routing. That would become a planning enforcement issue. It's not uncommon to find a site has crept up above the original approved number of movements, at which point they will need a variation to the planning permission which is an opportunity to impose routing conditions.
3) Consider whether any EWRs could be removed. We have the problem that almost all our local roads now have EWRs, which mean that any road can be used to access anywhere within the EWR. It would have been better if some of the B roads didn't have EWRs, as then it would keep them off the minor roads. This would be a highways authority change (usually County Council or unitary authority)
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