A homeowner whose Kent property faces a layby who regularly finds drivers defecating and urinating in his garden insists he does not resent them and that the government should provide better facilities.
Jolyon Drury says he fills three bin bags of waste left by lorry drivers every couple of weeks outside his house in Westwell but that the problem is a social issue that is being ignored.
“We are not being NIMBY, it’s much more about driver welfare,” he says. “We have 13 regularly in the layby outside our property. None of this is a complaint. We have nothing against the drivers parking there. The issue that comes out of it is sanitary waste.
“There is an issue of security and then human waste, which is really unpleasant; two litre bottles of pee are often flung out of cab windows.”
Drury, who was an HGV driver in the 1970s and now provides supply chain logistics advice, says he has politely asked drivers not to use his garden as a toilet but he understand that many of them don’t have the money to use sites like Ashford truck stop.
“It needs highlighting that at the end of the food chain are not unreasonable and quite supportive ordinary members of the public, but this is getting beyond a joke.”
Drury’s comments come after Kent local and county council Nigel Collor said he was working with Dover MP Charlie Elphicke to raise awareness about the lack of secure parking facilities in the county.
