ISSUES regarding HGV parking have arisen since the HMRC Inland Border Facility opened on North Weald Airfield on January 1, North Weald Bassett Parish Council has said.

Monday’s parish council meeting heard that council chairman Alan Buckley and clerk Sue DeLuca would be meeting with Epping Forest District Council to discuss issues relating to parking and signage which had arisen since the facility had opened.

The parish council is to ask for fortnightly rather than monthly meetings with the district council over the checkpoint after being advised by residents that severe damage had been caused to the church car park opposite St Andrew’s Church.

Councillor Buckley said the car park had been “completely trashed” with 10ins to 12ins ruts left in the surface.