A Braintree bus depot is going up for sale - but travel bosses are refusing to reveal where the buses will be kept if the plot is sold
The depot in Fairfield Road is home to a fleet of buses belonging to First, which serve the district and travel farther afield into neighbouring Colchester and Chelmsford.
Lee Berry, divisional manager for First, said the bus depot would not be closing immediately but it will be up for sale shortly. He declined to comment on where the buses would move to should the depot be sold.
Many bus routes serving the area begin and end in Fairfield Road and, because of the lack of bus shelters there, in bad weather passengers are permitted to enter the buses from inside the depot for shelter.
Phyllis Webb, from the Braintree Pensioners' Action Group, said: "I think the drop-off and pick-up points should be relocated to the old bus park in Victoria Street where there is a waiting room to keep people comfortable and dry and toilets, although there's nowhere to park the buses at night so I don't know where they would go."
A spokesman for Braintree Council said that within the local plan the area is designated as retail, leisure and mixed use and hinted that the land was likely to be worth quite a lot of money.
Published Friday, June 6, 2003
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