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in an inappropriate rural location.
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So instead they want it near 'settlements' (where complaints about noise and traffic might ensue . . .)?
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the proposals from JD Owen Transport Services to build the facility near Junction 31 of the A55 off the B5122, close to Caerwys, are due to be debated by the planning and development control committee on 4 February (2009). They were lodged in July 2007.
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the recommendation to refuse the site is down to it being currently undeveloped agricultural land and a truckstop and business park would be inappropriate in such a rural location.
JD Owen owner Dai Owen says he considered sites off every junction of the A55 between Holyhead and Chester and this was the only one that was suitable. "I think everyone has forgotten the needs of the lorry driver in this whole process," he says.
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