Service Station Move
Sir, —The Town and Country Planning Appeal Board yesterday supported a “specific departure” to allow a petrol station to be established in a residential area at the corner of Idris Road and Blighs Road. As a parent, I am horrified at the prospect of further traffic problems being introduced on an already hazardous corner. As a resident, I am shocked and dismayed to think of a garish building, floodlights, advertising hoardings, to say nothing of noise and smell, near my home. As an armchair economist, I am amazed that a roadside pump selling 33,000 gallons annually is permitted to survive. Surely any increase in sale by this company at the proposed site can be made only at the expense of lost turnover by established stations, of which there are at least six, giving good service, within a radius of a mile from the corner. A petition to the council opposing this station has been signed by residents, but, short of planting a time bomb, what further redress has a ratepayer against this type of intrusion? —Yours, etc., MOGUL. September 12, 1968.
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Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31783, 13 September 1968, Page 14
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