Up to 150 lorries to be used in Kent test of government plans to cope with border disruption
uthorities fear that new border checks introduced following a no-deal Brexit will slow down traffic through the nearby port of Cairnryan
"A complete waste of time and money" - but it will take 48 hours to stand down Operation Brock.
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'
The government has ordered a 27-acre site be transformed into a customs clearance centre
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.
DfT has bought site that will be used for customs clearance and holding pen for lorries, Rachel Maclean confirms.
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.
Thousands of lorries may have to queue to get into Europe after December 31
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.
Work on an "emergency lorry park" in Kent to accommodate up to 10,000 vehicles bound for Europe began without the knowledge of residents.
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.
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.
New 'Brexit lorry park' planned for Hull
21/08/2020
It will play a key role in providing extra border checks.
Memo warns of ‘critical gaps’ in new IT systems – with just four months to go to end of transition.
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.
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.
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.
‘Worst case scenario’ also warns of passengers waiting hours to board Chunnel trains to continent.
The site had originally been used to carry out around 2,000 COVID tests a day - but has since shut down.
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.
Sites being acquired as part of efforts to avoid long lorry queues at ports such as Dover.
In the corner of Britain known as the Garden of England, Brexit is literally taking concrete form.
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.