Pembroke Dock HGV park plan is still on the table
The appeal about the hastily refused Pembroke Dock HGV park is still on the table, reports the Tenby Observer following the Pembrokeshire County Council’s planning committees' meeting.
The appeal about the hastily refused Pembroke Dock HGV park is still on the table, reports the Tenby Observer following the Pembrokeshire County Council’s planning committees' meeting.
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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