The Goods Vehicles (Licensing of Operators) Regulations 1995

Considerations relevant to determinations [F1 as to environmental matters] E+W+S

15.—(1) The considerations prescribed as relevant to any determination of a kind specified in section 34(2) are—

(a) the nature and the use of any other land in the vicinity of the land used or proposed to be used as an operating centre, and any effect which the use of the land as an operating centre has, or would be likely to have, on the environment of that vicinity;

(b) in a case where the land proposed to be used as an operating centre is, or has previously been, used as an operating centre, the extent to which the grant of the application would result in any material change as regards that operating centre, or its use, which would adversely affect the environment of the vicinity of that land;

(c) in the case of an application which, if granted, would result in land which has not previoulsy been used as an operating centre being used as one, any information known to the traffic commissioner [F2 dealing with the application] about any planning permission or application for planning permission relating to the land or any other land in the vicinity of that land;

(d) the number, type and size of [F3 heavy goods vehicles];

(e) the arrangements for the parking of [F4 heavy goods vehicles] or the proposed or likely arrangements for such parking;

(f) the nature and the times of the use of the land for the purpose of an operating centre or the proposed nature and times of the use of the land proposed to be used for that purpose;

(g) the nature and the times of the use of any equipment installed on the land used as an operating centre for the purpose of the use of that land as an operating centre or of any equipment proposed or likely to be installed on the land proposed to be used as an operating centre for that purpose; and

(h) the means and frequency of [F5 heavy goods vehicle] ingress to, and egress from, the land used as an operating centre or the proposed means and frequency of such ingress to, and egress from, the land proposed to be used as an operating centre.

(2) In this regulation—

“operating centre" includes part of an operating centre and the place which would be the operating centre if the application were granted; and

“planning permission" has the same meaning, as regards England and Wales, as in section 336(1) of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 M1 , and, as regards Scotland, as in section 274(1) of the Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1972 M2 .

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in reg. 15 heading inserted (17.3.2022) by The Goods Vehicles (Licensing of Operators) (Amendment) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/293), regs. 2(1), 60(1)

F2 Words in reg. 15(1)(c) substituted (3.7.2013) by The Local Transport Act 2008 (Traffic Commissioners) (Consequential Amendments) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/1644), art. 1(1), Sch. 2 (with arts. 1(3), 2, 7)

F3 Words in reg. 15(1)(d) substituted (17.3.2022) by The Goods Vehicles (Licensing of Operators) (Amendment) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/293), regs. 2(1), 60(2)(a)

F4 Words in reg. 15(1)(e) substituted (17.3.2022) by The Goods Vehicles (Licensing of Operators) (Amendment) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/293), regs. 2(1), 60(2)(a)

F5 Words in reg. 15(1)(h) substituted (17.3.2022) by The Goods Vehicles (Licensing of Operators) (Amendment) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/293), regs. 2(1), 60(2)(b)

Commencement Information

I1 Reg. 15 in force at 1.1.1996, see reg. 1

Marginal Citations

M1 1990 c.80.

M2 1972 c.52.