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Compulsory Licencing of UK car wash sites
Mandatory Licencing of all UK car wash sites. The Licencing authority to be independent of government and a mixture of private companies:
CWAS and Downstream
Accountancy and employment specialists
Health and Safety specialists
Charitable organisations
Planning specialists
With an enforcement team comprising of:
Police, GLAA, Environment Agency, HMRC, H&S Executive, Immigration, Local planning departments
Why is this important?
Car Wash Advisory Service have been working within the car wash industry since 2011 and are specialists in the issues that surround unregulated washing. Further to the Environmental Audit committee's investigation in to hand car washing and their findings that the main faults lay with lack of understanding of the industry and lack of engagement from enforcement of current legislation. The EAC asked for mandatory licencing but the Government failed to grant this and offered voluntary licencing instead. They have clearly failed to understand that without mandatory licencing, the issues that surround unregulated vehicle washing (modern slavery, environmental damage, tax evasion) will not change, as the issues are so deeply ingrained, after years of neglect by successive Governments and their agencies. The only way to ensure that the issues that surround unregulated car wash sites stop is to introduce mandatory licencing.
