If the Walkford and Roeshot sites get the go ahead, it is predicted that 14 lorry movements per hour, per site, would be taking place every day!

As you can see this lorry dwarfs the nearby cars as it thunders past people in the High Street. If you happen to work in any of the shops then you’ll know that the walls shake and you can’t hear yourself speak until they have passed.

This lorry is trying to turn out of the Ringwood Road at the Cat and Fiddle junction of the A35. Gravel lorries for the Walkford site would have to pass this junction which can get very busy, especially during the summer tourist season. This area is seen by many as a ‘gateway’ into the New Forest, but do tourists want to see it chock a block with heavy lorries!

This is one of the smaller New Milton Sand and Gravel lorries on its way through Walkford. Every lorry is meant to be sprayed with water, to minmise the dust, but inevitably there is going to be considerable noise and dust pollution, with so many extra lorries around.