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A permit required by lorry drivers entering Kent after the end of the Brexit transition period has been scrapped. The Department for Transport also announced that a moveable barrier installed on the M20 will be dismantled over the weekend. The traffic management measures were introduced in Kent amid fears that the UK’s withdrawal from the European Union could lead to disruption for cross-Channel trade. From today Kent Access Permits are a thing of the past for lorries crossing the Short Straits �� As trade returns to normal levels, delays at the border have been prevented thanks to haul...

Ashford Borough Council to recruit 130 workers at Brexit lorry park in Sevington  |  Updated: 11:23, 27 January 2021 More than 100 people are to be recruited to work at a huge Brexit lorry park ahead of its full opening. The enormous park in Sevington, Ashford, will provide customs and transit checks for lorries leaving and arriving from Europe. A new health checks centre is to open at the lorry park in Sevington. Photo: ABC The government - which only snapped up the 66-acre plot in July - had hoped it could hold up to 1,700 trucks on the site and use the land for customs checks from Januar...

Date Time Funding for new checks on animal products creates 500 jobs £14 million in funding has been given to local authorities across England to help them maintain the UK’s high standards on imported animal products, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs has today (26 January 2021) confirmed. Over 500 new port health roles are being created to facilitate the new checks on imports of animal products from the EU from April 2021, with £8.8 million invested in Ashford Borough Council and Dover District Council. A further £5.2 million is being spent on recruiting staff, equi...

UK Money Made Available to Check EU Animal Product Imports Kent Gets Lion's Share of Funding UK – EUROPE – Rightly or wrongly it is fair to say there has always existed a degree of distrust between the farming communities on either side of the channel. Each can point out perceived weaknesses, with the French particularly coming under scrutiny with accusations of tardiness in adopting agreed standards and the UK seen as favouring chemicals such as neonicotinoids, frowned upon elsewhere. Post Brexit the UK has now taken action, doubtless to be mirrored across the water, to ensure checks ar...

Praise for KCC and its handling of Brexit transition traffic  |  So far, so good. That was the message from KCC's senior highways manager Toby Howe to members of the Maidstone Joint Transportation Board as he reported on the effects of Brexit on the county's roads. Operation Brock was working well Picture: Barry Goodwin Mr Howe said the county had implemented its traffic management plan at the end of the transition period on December 31, with Operation Brock in place to control queuing lorries and with inland border facilities at Sevington near Ashford, and at the former Manston Airport. He...