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Facility nicknamed Farage Garage is just one of 29 such sites being created across England
Deal or no deal, British companies will have to confront a wall of bureaucracy that threatens chaos at the border if they want to sell into the world’s biggest trading bloc when life after Brexit begins on January 1.
Up to 1,700 backed up lorries could soon be forced to wait in the lorry park in Ashford, Kent, which some are already calling the "Farage Garage".
Ashford Brexit lorry park consultation starts - four months after work began on site near Junction 10a
15/10/2020
Residents are being urged to have their say on Ashford's controversial post-Brexit lorry park – four months after work began on the site.
In the corner of Britain known as the Garden of England, Brexit is literally taking concrete form.
Sites being acquired as part of efforts to avoid long lorry queues at ports such as Dover.
Brexit border-line issues: Would you want to still be 'testing' software designed to stop Kent becoming a massive lorry park come 31 December?
04/09/2020
New supply chains, brand new system, and ... oh dear, it's still not ready yet.
The site had originally been used to carry out around 2,000 COVID tests a day - but has since shut down.
‘Worst case scenario’ also warns of passengers waiting hours to board Chunnel trains to continent.
Brexit lorry park: Department for Transport yet to assess environment impact of huge site in Ashford
08/09/2020
The government is yet to work out the potential environmental impact of a huge Brexit lorry park - even though construction started almost two months ago.
Traders fear that flow of food and vital medicines will be disrupted after 1 January – even as UK may be hit by second spike of Covid-19.
The UK is "sleepwalking into a disaster" over its border plans for the end of the Brexit transition period on 31 December, road hauliers have warned.
Memo warns of ‘critical gaps’ in new IT systems – with just four months to go to end of transition.
New 'Brexit lorry park' planned for Hull
21/08/2020
It will play a key role in providing extra border checks.
Four sites in Kent - with capacity to hold thousands of lorries - have already been mapped out, to ease the pressure on major Channel ports like Dover.
Fears of dead chicks in lorries and 10 months of ports chaos detailed in new government document
04/08/2020
Emergency traffic measures to last until ‘end of October 2021’ – with a giant lorry park to hold 2,000 goods vehicles.
Work on an "emergency lorry park" in Kent to accommodate up to 10,000 vehicles bound for Europe began without the knowledge of residents.
A field inland from the White Cliffs of Dover, a totem of English identity, is one of four sites the U.K. has earmarked for conversion into lorry parks for customs checks after Brexit, according to a person familiar with the plans.
Thousands of lorries may have to queue to get into Europe after December 31
The U.K. government just presented a 206-page manual for how the country will trade with the European Union on Jan. 1, when Britain’s exit from the 27-nation bloc becomes official 4 1/2 years after the nation voted to leave.
DfT has bought site that will be used for customs clearance and holding pen for lorries, Rachel Maclean confirms.
Up to 12 post-Brexit customs centres like Kent lorry park to be built to deal with EU exit
13/07/2020
Businesses face 400 million extra customs declarations a year at a cost up as much as £20 billion under government plans.
The government has ordered a 27-acre site be transformed into a customs clearance centre
Ministers accused of building 'pointless lorry park in Kent' after announcing £700m for trade checks [1 min]
12/07/2020
'This is all so pointless. We are creating a vast customs bureaucracy, with costs passed on to the consumer'