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  Hi Sue, indeed. The port switches the lights when movement through the port to the berths is extra slow and the port's internal buffer zone is at capacity. From my perspective I see some advantage for the port in having those lights further up on the Courtwood interchange as having longer for released lorries to get down to the buffer zone gives longer for lorries already in the buffer zone to move forward a bit (not much longer, maybe a minute or two). Policing would be a bit trickier I would imagine and being outside the normal jurisdiction of the port police would fall to highways instead and I'd imagine that they'd have some push back unless there was some pretty compelling evidence that the current location is really damaging to health.
  
  I did some work with the Town Council to get some noise and particulate monitors placed adjacent to the fence on the Aycliffe side there so that change could be driven from hard data about the harm being done that couldn't be denied or fobbed off as anecdotal - which is often what happens with verbal evidence. This was as part of the Traffic work stream for the Town's neighbourhood plan initiative. Unfortunately, for reasons unknown to me, the neighbourhood plan initiative stalled and the equipment didn't get deployed as a result.

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