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Edited highlights below with the bits in red are my observations;
Flintshire Council planners yesterday voted to refuse an application to build the overnight lorry park, which would have space for 20 HGVs, on the outskirts of Caerwys, near Holywell. They said the proposed site, largely on brownfield land next to junction 31 of the A55, was ‘not a suitable place’ for the development.
Caerwys Cllr Jim Falshaw said: “If it were to go ahead, the truck stop would generate extra traffic through the town.
Utter cobblers, nobody would want to go through Caerwys unless they wanted to stop somewhere between Mold and Denbigh on the A541, i.e. locals who would have been using the road anyway. 99% of the traffic would just have rejoined the A55 and been on their way.
“I am very concerned for the safety of elderly residents and young children.
This is just rank scaremongering of the highest order. There are no houses in the vacinity, so I’m not sure where all these old duffers and kids are gonna spring from? Funny Councillor Falshaw didn’t have the same objections when they built a Maccy D’s about 200yds away? Maybe the truckstop doesn’t 'grease the wheels of beauracracy quite as well as the multinationals?
Fears were also raised about the impact on the nearby Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, the border of which is near the proposed truck stop site.
So now you can’t build somewhere on the edge of an AONB? What about if you can see one with binoculars, does that count? 
Cllr Chris Bithell said: “Whenever I pass the area, I always have to admire the beautiful views.“I would not want us to throw something like a lorry park in the foreground of such panoramic views.
But a McDonalds, BP petrol station and Starbucks is fine?
Gronant councillor Fred Gilmore said: “I come off at that junction every day to go home and the traffic there at rush hour is already terrible. “We don’t want to be adding lorries into the equation as well.”
Capacity for 20 trucks? Hardly Lymm services is it?
Several members of the STAG 31 action group, who have campaigned tirelessly and collected a petition of more than 1,000 signatures against the plan because of the effect they believe it would have on the area, also attended the meeting and cheered when the application was turned down.
“Hurrah, imagine what it will do for our house prices!” 
