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Mar 2024
Wetherby Services truckstop to get £109,000 upgrade
Wetherby Services has been named as one of 38 truckstops in line for an upgrade today.
Roads Minister Guy Opperman said the locations would share £6 million from the Department for Transport and £10.5 million from industry "to significantly improve their facilities for lorry drivers".
The HGV parking and driver welfare grant scheme aims to create more parking spaces, better welfare facilities and safer rest areas.
The upgrades will include new showers, restaurants, better lighting and secure fencing around rest areas.
The measures will create a total of 430 new parking spaces for HGVs to free up local roads, the government said.
The Wetherby site, run by Moto Hospitality, will receive £108,900 for security and decarbonisation measures. Further details have not been received.
Other Yorkshire and the Humber truckstops to receive funding are at Ferrybridge, Coneygarth, Whitwood and Woolley Edge.
Mr Opperman said:
Declan Pang, director of policy and public affairs at the Road Haulage Association said the funding will "make a tangible difference to the experiences of lorry drivers and provide much needed additional parking capacity to address the well-known shortage of spaces".
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