Bonnybridge demolition firm’s vehicle licence curtailed for six months
A Bonnybridge demolition firm’s operating licence has been curtailed by Scotland’s Traffic Commissioner because convictions were not reported to her office.
Central Demolition Ltd appeared before Joan Aitken at a public inquiry in Edinburgh earlier this year.
In a written decision, Miss Aitken said she took the dimmest view of not being told about the appointment of a director to the company, Colin Peat, and his previous offending. She added that the business had deprived her of important regulatory information.
The Traffic Commissioner was also not informed about the company’s convictions, including for a fatality at Leith Harbour.
She determined that if Mr Peat had been involved in the transport side of the business, she would have considered revoking the operator’s licence.
“I therefore have to put a marker down to directors Ross Craig and Colin Peat that the offending of which the company and its directors as individuals have been convicted are not the activities which I expect of a company that holds an operator’s licence and that notifications are not side issues but essential to the continuing assessment of fitness all of which are there to serve health and safety and intrinsic to operator licensing as a preventative regime.”
The Traffic Commissioner’s curtailment order came into effect at 23:59 on 20 May 2016. The company’s licence will be reduced from 30 to 29 vehicles for six months.
