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‘I think it’s going to be a nightmare’: Local fears about impact of Brexit lorry parks come early as border chaos reigns
23/12/2020
People in Ebbsfleet and Warrington are worried by the development of inland border facilities on their doorstep. They tell Rory Sullivan about their concerns
Rory Sullivan
Facility nicknamed Farage Garage is just one of 29 such sites being created across England
Whitfield Inland Border Point supported by Dover District Council with no guarantee DfT will fix road and environment problems
09/02/2021
The government’s Inland Border Point (IBP) at Whitfield has won the support of Dover District Council tonight despite complaints the authority was making“blind deliberations” with no guarantee.
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.
Sites being acquired as part of efforts to avoid long lorry queues at ports such as Dover.
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.
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.
Truckers trying to find Brexit lorry park next to Junction 10a in Ashford spark chaos in Mersham
07/01/2021
Confused truckers trying to find a huge Brexit lorry park are getting lost in a nearby village - making houses shake and churning up grass verges.
THE UK Government’s Brexit plans are "bonkers" and "a shambles", according to a director of the Road Haulage Association (RHA).
Staff at Sevington Internal Border Facility near Ashford to be redeployed amid post-Brexit delays
17/04/2022
Dozens of staff recruited to process and check food goods arriving from Europe could have to be redeployed after the government announced a further delay on new post-Brexit border controls.
Plans to convert disused Scottish port into a Brexit lorry park ‘not ready’ after row over funding
13/12/2020
Ministers at Holyrood are still trying to find ‘additional space’ in the event that freight traffic bound for Northern Ireland had to be ‘stacked’ due to border delays.
Operation Brock: Post-Brexit emergency lorry powers around Port of Dover to be made permanent
10/08/2021
The change means the emergency measure – which repurposes part of the M20 motorway as a lorry park – could be put back in place at any time.
Up to 150 lorries to be used in Kent test of government plans to cope with border disruption
"A complete waste of time and money" - but it will take 48 hours to stand down Operation Brock.
New 'Brexit lorry park' planned for Hull
21/08/2020
It will play a key role in providing extra border checks.
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".
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'
Angry residents are growing increasingly impatient waiting for a solution to be found to stop lorry park-bound truckers getting lost in Mersham.
The government has ordered a 27-acre site be transformed into a customs clearance centre
‘Worst case scenario’ also warns of passengers waiting hours to board Chunnel trains to continent.
Heavy rain has hampered work on site intended to relieve queues around Dover from 1 January.
DfT has bought site that will be used for customs clearance and holding pen for lorries, Rachel Maclean confirms.
Ministers urged to fulfil promise of new facilities, as desperate drivers forced to ‘s*** in bushes’.
Thousands of lorries may have to queue to get into Europe after December 31
Work on an "emergency lorry park" in Kent to accommodate up to 10,000 vehicles bound for Europe began without the knowledge of residents.