Car salesroom's dust problem as Usher's site revamp continues (From This Is Wiltshire)

Car salesroom's dust problem as Usher's site revamp continues

3:10pm Monday 13th July 2009

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A car saleswoman in Trowbridge says dust coming from a nearby buiding site is costing her money as it regularly covers the cars for sale in her forecourt.

Bridgette Adams, who owns Rainbow Motor Company in Union Street, is just one of a number of people in the area to complain about the amount of dust coming from work going on in preparation for a new Sainsbury’s supermarket on the former Usher’s bottling plant site off British Row.

She says she has to pay between £50-£60 to have each car valeted inside and out as the dust is getting inside the cars and on the seats as well as in the engine and on the paintwork.

Miss Adams said: “This has been going on for one-and-a-half to two months now.

“As fast as we were getting them valeted there is a thick layer of dust settling back on them again.

“We don’t think the workmen are dousing down enough.”

The work going on at the building site is to crush down the remaining brickwork and foundations of the old Ushers building to be reused when the Sainsbury’s store is built.

Cllr Tom James said he had had a meeting with the site manager and the environmental health officer from Wiltshire Council to see what could be done to stop the dust.

Cllr James said: “When we met with staff and workers on site the said the work was due to take 16 weeks but they now think it will take only 10 weeks, which means it should be finished soon.

“What they did do was to move some big mounds of crushed concrete to the other site of the site and they were damping down while we were there.”

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