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Family business plans to open essential Suffolk lorry park
By Chris Tindall A SUFFOLK-based family firm that specialises in operating industrial estates is trying to open a 100-space lorry park in order to help solve a county-wide lack of HGV parking.
Tim Baker, property manager of Woolpit Business Parks, says it hopes to put in a planning application in the next couple of months for land at Woolpit near Bury St Edmunds to he used for lorries.
If the plans get the green light and prove to be a success, the owners will expand the site to accommodate 200 vehicles.
Although Woolpit Business Parks runs warehouses, business units and offices, it is now looking to branch out and ease the chronic shortage of parking in Suffolk.
The local authority estimates that more than 500 HGV drivers are unable to find suitable and secure parking each night Baker says that with its other interests. Woolpit Business Parks can turn lorry parking into a prolitable venture, but that council bureaucracy stopped it from submitting an application earlier. He adds: "The main thing for us is that we have a new planning officer who has joined Mid-Suffolk [district council] and is more on the ball.
"It is working together with the county council and the Highways Agency and they are all very pro."
• Lorry park boss Karl Rout says he is pleased that Suffolk Coastal District Council has approved the use of signage to advertise the Orwell Crossing Lorry Park on the A14, despite Highways Agency complaints.
The long-running fight appears to have ended with a council committee agreeing that a sign explaining there was a 24-hour restaurant on the site wouldn't encourage additional trips.
Rout says:"People are mistaking the junction for the AU. There have been 13 serious accidents since the McDonald's sign came down. Luckily, everyone has walked away."