Planned by Certas Energy UK, the Pembrokeshire Dock HGV park, which would have space for 17 HGV oil tankers and 18 car parking spaces as well as a staff welfare building on the Criterion Way, Pembroke Dock site, became infamous last year when reacting to the plan for the lorry park near Pembroke Dock, a Labour councillor said the following according to the Western Telegraph:
“Anyone who thinks putting a smelly, potentially dangerous, lorry park there will be of any benefit to Pembroke Dock is living in cloud cuckoo land.”
Councillor Wilcox’s outburst provoked a furious reaction from Duncan Buchanan, RHA Policy Director at that time, who said the comments were “ill-informed” and “inflammatory”.
Ignorant I’ll informed inflammatory comments from local councillors about lorry parking. They should be ashamed, lorries are essential & facilities for drivers desperately needed. This rubbish is 1 reason why there is a shortage. Bloody livid! @CharlotteV @RWUK01 https://t.co/h3OYPZJ4fw pic.twitter.com/laZU2uFpcW
— Duncan Buchanan (@DBuchanan_) September 9, 2021
Still, at the end of the day, members of the planning committee refused the application by Certas Energy UK on the grounds it will have a negative impact on a conservation area in March 2022.
According to the latest media reports, however, Certas Energy has handed in an appeal against the council’s decision, and after a site visit back in November 2022, the case is still on the table.
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