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Main Boards => News and Articles => Topic started by: WhitstableDave on 09:52:34, 03/01/21
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From the BBC News website this morning...
Brexit: Dover inland border checkpoint planned on farmland (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-kent-55514651)
What the news article doesn't mention is that a National Trail, the North Downs Way, crosses the farmland in question!
I've done my best to show the land affected by this plan by drawing a blue line on the OS map:
(http://www.cruisingmates.co.uk/coppermine/albums/userpics/10054/Brexit_field.jpg)
This is a lovely spot on high ground outside Dover with wonderful views. I predict a fight! >:(
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Tearing up a 2000 year old Roman Road and concreting over two Long Distance Paths. :(
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Tearing up a 2000 year old Roman Road and concreting over two Long Distance Paths. :(
I'm just surprised that there isn't a SSSI involved too :tickedoff:
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Keep us posted 'Dave - especially if a petition is raised.
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Keep us posted 'Dave - especially if a petition is raised.
Yes we should try and fight it, for all the good it will do.
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That whole Brexit thing sucks more with every passing day
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O0 O0 O0
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That whole Brexit thing sucks more with every passing day
With worse to come.
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Like it or not, they'll re-route the trail, no doubt about that.
Apart from that, I was reading in the Guardian over the weekend of the despair of the people whose houses are on the edge of the site.
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"In the Dover district 62.2% voted to leave and 37.8% to remain in the EU"
And then they change your garden into a lorry park...
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Sadly looks like a fait accompli to me - they will need a site next to an existing junction in close proximity to the port. What a great improvement on previous practices :(
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Very sorry to hear of this plan. Please let us know if there's a petition, Dave. But I fear it will be a losing battle.
That whole Brexit thing sucks more with every passing day
So true
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"They paved paradise and put up a parking lot" Joni Mitchell
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With worse to come.
Seconded. It's a disaster on so many levels.
. . . I was reading in the Guardian . . . the despair of the people whose houses are on the edge of the site.
Yes, I read that piece too - it's here:
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/jan/01/residents-furious-brexit-lorry-park-kent-village (https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/jan/01/residents-furious-brexit-lorry-park-kent-village)
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Sadly very apt, jimbob. :(
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Very sorry to hear of this plan. Please let us know if there's a petition, Dave. But I fear it will be a losing battle.
There's an online petition on change.org opposing the plan.
Here's the introduction:
The Government is seeking to create an additional Inland Border Facility in Guston to accommodate new custom and border controls commencing from 1 July 2021. Fields in the village of Guston, have been earmarked for this new customs checkpoint which will be sited adjacent to family homes. Local residents and our community are devastated with these plans which will be detrimental to village way of life, imposing noise, air and light pollution from the 1200 lorries that could use the facility. Guston is a peaceful historic hamlet and an area of outstanding natural beauty and allowing a lorry clearance site in the village centre will slaughter of our way of life enabling the Government to rob community privacy and our residents entitlement to live peacefully.
And here is the link to the petition:
https://www.change.org/p/boris-johnson-inland-boarder-facility-white-cliffs-guston-dover (https://www.change.org/p/boris-johnson-inland-boarder-facility-white-cliffs-guston-dover)
I've never liked the pushiness of change.org, but I signed the petition anyway. Needs must!
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Signed. Thanks for the link, Dave
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Signed :)
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Signed.