Hinckley National Rail Freight Interchange Debate
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Jack Lopresti
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Hinckley National Rail Freight Interchange
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Jack Lopresti (Filton and Bradley Stoke) (Con)
Looking at the overall picture, will there not be an environmental benefit in getting freight off roads and on to rail, and should a study be done to try to demonstrate that?
Alberto Costa
I entirely agree. Government policy is to reduce HGV traffic by moving freight off our principal road arteries and on to rail, but the concern about this specific proposal is that developers often propose a purported rail freight head development when all they want is a very large logistics park. We must be ultra-cautious that this particular development is not just a front for yet another large-scale logistics park.