Letter sent on New Year’s Eve warns that area has been purchased for use as customs site.

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.

Residents next to a large Brexit lorry park in Ashford say it is as bright as Wembley Stadium and has ruined the dark night sky for miles around.

From up above, it resembles a sports stadium, void of spectators or athletes. Or a motorway service station, similarly vacant without a car or a lorry in plain sight.

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.

Residents are being urged to have their say on Ashford's controversial post-Brexit lorry park – four months after work began on the site.

Government officials are continuing to block the release of information about the impact of post-Brexit lorry park holding sites, saying it is not in the public interest.

Memo warns of ‘critical gaps’ in new IT systems – with just four months to go to end of transition.

A Brexit border control post in Holyhead is set to shrink under plans for a lighter touch system using more data and technology. In May, the UK Government delayed introducing more checks on EU goods entering the UK for the fourth time over fears it will impact supply chains and add to rising inflation.

New supply chains, brand new system, and ... oh dear, it's still not ready yet.

The creation of a giant Brexit border control site off the M20 is likely to cost taxpayers a staggering £70 million, it has emerged.

Floodlights at a Brexit lorry park in Kent have "destroyed" the night sky, residents say.

A huge Brexit lorry park in Ashford is as bright as Wembley Stadium and has ruined the dark night sky for miles around, according to angry residents.

The government has paid the owner of land being used as a Brexit lorry park in Ashford almost £6m in rent, it has emerged.

The border facility, which is still under construction, was set up by the Government to hold around 1,700 lorries in case of border disruption.

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.

There are calls for the new Brexit minister Liz Truss to visit a village near Ashford where truckers keep getting lost on their way to a lorry park.

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.

Brussels asks France to go easy on UK and lift ‘blanket’ travel ban on freight.

uthorities fear that new border checks introduced following a no-deal Brexit will slow down traffic through the nearby port of Cairnryan

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 site had originally been used to carry out around 2,000 COVID tests a day - but has since shut down.

A former military airfield in Dumfries and Galloway will be used as an emergency lorry park if Brexit causes disruption at Cairnryan.

In the corner of Britain known as the Garden of England, Brexit is literally taking concrete form.

Emergency traffic measures to last until ‘end of October 2021’ – with a giant lorry park to hold 2,000 goods vehicles.

Locals condemn lack of consultation over customs clearance site for 1,200 lorries.

Drone pictures reveal how a giant Brexit border control site off the M20 near Ashford is now sitting empty.

Work on an "emergency lorry park" in Kent to accommodate up to 10,000 vehicles bound for Europe began without the knowledge of residents.

Thousands of lorries may have to queue to get into Europe after December 31

Ministers urged to fulfil promise of new facilities, as desperate drivers forced to ‘s*** in bushes’.

DfT has bought site that will be used for customs clearance and holding pen for lorries, Rachel Maclean confirms.

Heavy rain has hampered work on site intended to relieve queues around Dover from 1 January.

‘Worst case scenario’ also warns of passengers waiting hours to board Chunnel trains to continent.

The government has ordered a 27-acre site be transformed into a customs clearance centre

Angry residents are growing increasingly impatient waiting for a solution to be found to stop lorry park-bound truckers getting lost in Mersham.

'This is all so pointless. We are creating a vast customs bureaucracy, with costs passed on to the consumer'

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".

It will play a key role in providing extra border checks.

"A complete waste of time and money" - but it will take 48 hours to stand down Operation Brock.

Up to 150 lorries to be used in Kent test of government plans to cope with border disruption

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.

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.

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.

THE UK Government’s Brexit plans are "bonkers" and "a shambles", according to a director of the Road Haulage Association (RHA).

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.

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.

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.

Sites being acquired as part of efforts to avoid long lorry queues at ports such as Dover.

Businesses face 400 million extra customs declarations a year at a cost up as much as £20 billion under government plans.

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.

Facility nicknamed Farage Garage is just one of 29 such sites being created across England

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