Milton Keynes City Councillor David Hopkins is calling for a 'serious omission' from the current MK2050 plan proposal to be corrected.
The plan currently includes proposals for 310 hectares additional warehousing and logistics, a sector considered to offer critical employment opportunities for the city, which has ideal transport links along the M1, A421 and the A5.
But Cllr Hopkins says there are no plans in place for site to host the vast numbers of HGV vehicles when not collecting or delivering from the planned warehouses, and those which already exist.
"We all as city councillors and as parish and town councillors receive complaints and concerns expressed to us every day regarding HGV’s parked in residential areas, on laybys or on bypasses and slip roads, short term, and all too often, overnight.
"I lay no blame whatsoever with HGV drivers nor the logistics operating companies. The city council proposals are letting them down as much as the city council is letting down residents by not attempting to address this growing environmental and planning crisis.
"Drivers need and deserve a site, or sites, to park up overnight, purchase food, shower and rest or simply to hold until the site they are visiting offers them a slot to collect or deliver."
