The Goods Vehicles (Licensing of Operators) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2012

Considerations relevant to determinations

14.—(1) The considerations prescribed as relevant to any determination of a kind specified in section 31(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 previously been used as an operating centre being used as one, any information known to the Department 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 motor vehicles or trailers;

(e) the arrangements for the parking of motor vehicles or trailers 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 vehicular 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 has the same meaning as in section 6(3); and

“planning permission” has the same meaning as in Part IV of the Planning (Northern Ireland) Order 1991(1).

(1)

S.I. 1991 No.1220 (N.I. 11)