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Date submitted

11 Sep 2025

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Interested Party

I strongly object to any plan to make the Sevington lorry park a permanent feature. This facility is completely unsuitable for a built-up residential area like Ashford. It’s dangerous, disruptive, and has already caused lasting damage to the town. • The light pollution is extreme — the whole area is lit up like a stadium all night, making it impossible to sleep or enjoy our homes. • The noise from lorries arriving, idling, and moving through the night is constant and stressful. • The local roads were never built to handle this volume of HGVs. There are regular crashes and near-misses, especially around Junction 10A. • Many of the lorry drivers don’t know where they’re going, and they show no regard for the community. They park wherever they like — including lay-bys marked for emergency vehicles — block driveways, and leave behind rubbish, urine bottles, and worse. • The council has done absolutely nothing to enforce rules or protect residents. Meanwhile, it seems they’re happy to benefit financially from hosting this facility — at the cost of our safety and quality of life. • The park is an eyesore, has dragged down house prices, and turned a once-decent part of Ashford into an industrial dumping ground. • This kind of development should never have been placed in a growing town. There are far more suitable sites along the M20 that wouldn’t impact people’s homes and daily lives like this. It was sold to the public as a temporary measure. Making it permanent would be a serious failure of planning and local responsibility. Please reject this proposal and start putting the people of Ashford first.