{"id":2467,"date":"2018-10-08T14:33:22","date_gmt":"2018-10-08T14:33:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/?p=2467"},"modified":"2018-10-08T14:33:22","modified_gmt":"2018-10-08T14:33:22","slug":"fallon-backs-moorhouse-objectors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/?p=2467","title":{"rendered":"Fallon Backs Moorhouse Objectors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sevenoaks MP Sir Michael Fallon has today pledged his support for opponents of Roxhill Developments\u2019 proposal to build a DPD distribution centre at Moorhouse tileworks.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The new distribution centre, which would become DPD\u2019s largest, delivering an initial 25,000 parcels a day and resulting in 800 extra vehicle journeys a day, would cause an unacceptable increase to traffic on the A25, particularly through the historic villages of Westerham, Brasted and Sundridge.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Sir Michael said: \u201cA similar scheme was rejected two years ago, and this proposal is no better.\u00a0 The significant increase in traffic would choke the A25 and bring unreasonable pressure on our historic villages. I have outlined my strong objections to Tandridge District Council and Kent County Council, and I have urged them to oppose this development.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/?attachment_id=2468\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2468\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2468\" src=\"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/7676aA-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"7676aA\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/7676aA-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/7676aA-768x512.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/7676aA-1024x682.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/7676aA-1200x799.jpg 1200w, http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/7676aA.jpg 1450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sevenoaks MP Sir Michael Fallon has today pledged his support for opponents of Roxhill Developments\u2019 proposal to build a DPD distribution centre at Moorhouse tileworks. &nbsp; The new distribution centre, which would become DPD\u2019s largest, delivering an initial 25,000 parcels a day and resulting in 800 extra vehicle journeys a day, would cause an unacceptable &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/?p=2467\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Fallon Backs Moorhouse Objectors&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[883,40,744,676,881,882,496,880,884,28],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2467"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2467"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2469,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2467\/revisions\/2469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}