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CARTER’S LORRY PARK – PARKED Kent Labour condemns Kent County Council’s current Conservative leadership for its latest blunder on Operation Stack. The Council’s failure to have an environmental impact assessment done on the site proposed for a lorry park – at Aldington, near Ashford – means that a planning application due later this month cannot be submitted before mid-2009. Mike Eddy, Labour Shadow Leader of KCC, said: “The Conservatives have been trumpeting around that they’ve taken a great step towards solving the problems caused by Operation Stack , by finding a possible site for a lorry park. “But all they’ve done is literally that – they’ve found a possible site. They haven’t put in for planning permission yet. “And now they can’t, because they failed to get an environmental impact assessment done. This is going to set the idea back by nearly a year. “If KCC’s current Conservative Leadership seriously thought their lorry park would solve anything, shouldn’t they have put more effort into making sure they were going about planning it properly?” Roger Truelove, Labour spokesperson for Highways, said: “While the County Council’s Conservatives have been making grand promises, the Labour Government – through the Highways Agency – has started building a Quick Moveable Barrier that is actually going to ease the congestion caused by Operation Stack. “Stack causes untold misery for motorists and businesses in Kent. “This latest blunder makes you wonder whether KCC’s current Conservative leadership is serious about finding a solution to the problem of Operation Stack”.
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