No room for lorry parks?
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IT APPEARS that ambitious plans set out in the report of the 1971 Working Party on Lorry Parking are not likely to be realised, according to Mr Neil Carmichael, Under-Secretary DoE.
Mr Carmichael told the Commons: We must look for other and perhaps slightly more modest ways of tackling the problem." He said that the Government had refused to grant planning permission for extensions at the port of Harwich as local authorities were responsible for meeting the demand for local lorry parking.
Under the Highways Act 1971 the county councils could provide lorry areas for specific purposes, and these schemes were eligible for the transport supplementary grant.
Mr Carmichael said it was unlikely that a strategic lorry park at Harwich would be viable because of the limited number of "away-based" heavy vehicles parking in the town overnight. A joint survey of lorry traffic by Essex and Suffolk County Councils had proved that a lorry park in Harwich would not be economic.