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P TRUCKSTOPS
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Kettering council receives planning proposal for 24-hour lorry park
WITH A RECENT study finding that Northamptonshire needs three more lorry parks to help lose its image as a freight crime hotspot, Kettering Borough Council has received an application for a 24-hour truckstop.
Property surveyor Mark Day of Great Line Developments has submitted a planning application to open a truckstop in Kettering, on the group's land in Rothwell.
The facility includes a fuel station and an amenities building. Local residents and businesses have until 30 April to submit feedback, and a target decision date has been set for 21 July.
The application follows Faber Maunsell's Northamptonshire HGV Parking Study. which says three more lorry parks are needed in the region to stop it being dubbed a national "honeypot" for haulage crime (CM 9 April).
"Residents and businesses don't want lorries parking in areas that are not suitable, and the drivers want somewhere where they can leave their lorries," says the council's deputy leader Alison Wiley.
• Skills for Logistics has stressed the need for better truckstop facilities to attract new recruits to the sector.
A spokeswoman says: "Facilities at lorry parks should be at standards lorry drivers expect."