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Villagers near A14 consider setting up a truckstop...
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Rather than simply complaining about trucks parking up in their village, residents of Bar Hill, Cambridgeshire are investigating the possibility of opening a truckstop themselves. Roanna Avison reports.
RESIDENTS AND businesses in the Cambridgeshire village of Bar Hill are investigating whether it will be possible to establish a truckstop in the area to prevent LGVs parking in the street.
Resident Alan Choat contacted CM to say that villagers in Bar Hill are fed up with the streets being filled with parked trucks that have come off the nearby A14: We have a big problem in the village with LGVs parking overnight.
"They cause an obstruction, they damage the kerbs and verges, they cause pedestrians to walk in the road and the drivers tend to throw rubbish out of the window."
Choat says the villagers are not anti-truckers, but are just trying to find a solution to the problem: "They have to go somewhere and we appreciate this is a problem on the A14. Whoever is responsible is not providing sufficient facilities."
Now Choat, other residents and local businesses from the industrial estate in the village are forming a commercial association: "Our concerns are more likely to be taken on hoard by the council if we are a cogent group," He has contacted the Freight Transport Association (FTA) for advice and confirms that the villagers are considering the possibility of opening a truckstop themselves.
Geoff Dossetter, external affairs director at the FTA, says it is good to see residents affected by trucks parking nearby trying to do something constructive, but adds: "There is a major problem throughout the country and particularly in East Anglia where there are no facilities for truckers on the A 14. Even the lay-bys are being closed."
And while the FTA welcomes the Bar Hill villagers' efforts, Dossetter says this does not negate the need for a national strategy on truck parking.
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