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• Plans for a new truck parking area at Dover mold face opposition from environmentalists, Dover District Council has warned.
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Last week Dover Harbour Board unveiled proposals for a 'buffer zone' to assemble trucks and slowly release them to the ferry port in order to improve the management of traffic flows.
This buffer zone would accommodate 1,000 vehicles with 500 overnight parking spaces. The project,designed to cut congestion in the town centre and easing delays on the M20, is expected to cost up to E30m.
But Councillor Paul Watkins, leader of Dover District Council, says the plans are likely to run into difficulties. He explains: "In general terms these proposals are welcomed. Kent and the Dover area need a lorry park to deal with the increased freight activity that can jam Dover.
"There's going to be a difficult tension to resolve in balancing the economic and environmental advantages of keeping freight out of the centre of Dover with the loss of heritage coastline if the proposals are accepted."
The proposed site is an area between the Court Wood junction of the A20 at Capel and Dover's Aycliffe roundabout.