{"id":2470,"date":"2018-10-12T13:46:34","date_gmt":"2018-10-12T13:46:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/?p=2470"},"modified":"2018-10-12T13:46:34","modified_gmt":"2018-10-12T13:46:34","slug":"transport-departments-m26-lorry-park-plan-wholly-unacceptable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/?p=2470","title":{"rendered":"Transport Department&#8217;s M26 Lorry Park Plan Wholly Unacceptable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sevenoaks MP Sir Michael Fallon has today expressed his serious concerns about the Government\u2019s plans to turn the M26 into a lorry park in the event of a no deal Brexit.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The move would close the motorway from 8pm to 5am every night between 15<sup>th<\/sup> and 19<sup>th<\/sup> October, and 19<sup>th<\/sup> November and 29<sup>th<\/sup> March 2019. Ministers failed to consult local councils and MPs.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Sir Michael said: \u201cIt is wholly unacceptable that residents were not consulted on these proposals, which will have severe pollution and noise consequences for my constituents\u2019 evening travel and access for local businesses. Any lorry parking will cause significant disruption for those in Dunton Green, north Sevenoaks, Otford, Seal and Kemsing. I have urged the Transport Secretary to reconsider these plans and meet me at the earliest opportunity to find an alternative solution.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2471\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2471\" style=\"width: 2448px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/?attachment_id=2471\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2471\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2471\" src=\"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/M26-letter-to-Chris-Grayling-MP.jpg\" alt=\"Letter to Transport Secretary \" width=\"2448\" height=\"3264\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/M26-letter-to-Chris-Grayling-MP.jpg 2448w, http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/M26-letter-to-Chris-Grayling-MP-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/M26-letter-to-Chris-Grayling-MP-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/M26-letter-to-Chris-Grayling-MP-1200x1600.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2471\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Letter to Transport Secretary<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sevenoaks MP Sir Michael Fallon has today expressed his serious concerns about the Government\u2019s plans to turn the M26 into a lorry park in the event of a no deal Brexit. &nbsp; The move would close the motorway from 8pm to 5am every night between 15th and 19th October, and 19th November and 29th March &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/?p=2470\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Transport Department&#8217;s M26 Lorry Park Plan Wholly Unacceptable&#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":[512,451,772,119,561,885,886,96,88,455],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2470"}],"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=2470"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2472,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2470\/revisions\/2472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}