Teynham Parish Council has lodged a final objection to plans which could result in hundreds of extra lorries using the A2.

Barrow Green Farm in the village and Jefferies Site, off Claxfield Road in Tonge, have been highlighted as “preferred options” for mineral extraction by Kent County Council.

Barbary Farm at Norton Ash is also in the list of sites.

The council is worried about the impact of HGVs transporting thousands of tonnes of brickearth along the road to factories in Sittingbourne and Sussex.

It has already objected to the county council’s minerals and waste local plan, a blueprint for where waste can be dumped and materials extracted up to 2030.

And the parish has now submitted a last-ditch challenge to the soundness of the plan, saying the impact on traffic in the area had not been properly considered.

Last Tuesday, the council agreed to object due to the “lack of existing and future transport planning”.

A document, put together by parish councillor Peter Finch, pointed to the A2’s poor crash record, which includes “a high level of road fatalities and serious collisions”.

It mentions air pollution on the A2 through Teynham, which has exceeded national limits and led to Swale council recently designating it as an official pollution hotspot.

The parish suggests the impact of borough-wide house-building, which could be as much as 776 a year, and the extra traffic generated by people living in the homes had also not been properly taken into account.

It concludes:“KCC/Swale have not considered any future or alternative measures to mitigate the issues of additional higher volumes of HGVs and other traffic using this section of the A2 and do not maintain the existing infrastructure, such as parking, road marking prohibitions or enforce illegal parking at known hazardous areas.”