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| Keywords: building architecture outdoor Stop 24 services is a motorway service station on the M20 motorway near Folkestone in Kent. They are the second to be built on the motorway and were opened in 2007. The services are found off Junction 11 at Westenhanger. They contain a petrol station, parking for both cars and lorries, and a number of shops including W H Smith a foreign exchange facility called Xchange. Now open is the lorry park with 82 parking spaces and customs clearance facilities provided by ChannelPorts Ltd Junctions 10 to 13 of the M20 motorway were opened in 1981.[1] Prior to the construction of the services, the proposed site was subjected to an archaeological investigation. This was because the area was close to known archaeological sites. Shards of pottery dating from the 1st–4th centuries were discovered and there may have been a Roman settlement between the current site of the services and line of the nearby Roman road from Lympne to Canterbury Sitting against the Channel Tunnel Rail Link, Folkestone officially opened on the 9th January 2008 but the services themselves actually opened a few days earlier (before any of the signs were put up), giving them the nickname 'the secret services'. Many of the units didn't open until a few days later, and the hotel, a Days Inn, wasn't scheduled to open until Autumn 2008. However, it wasn't built at all and to this day, there is no hotel at the site. It's located at the first exit after the Channel Tunnel, perhaps making lorry drivers from France navigate local traffic on their way to the toilet wasn't the smartest of ideas. Having been removed from just about every service station, Wimpy made a surprising return to the services. It was then removed again in 2013. Planning Several plans for these services were originally submitted in the early 1990s, but the Department for Transport rejected them all as it said they weren't suitable. In 2010 Henry Boot Developments tried to sue several companies for misrepresenting the number of visitors, facilities and signs on the motorway these services would get. The case was dismissed. The original plans were for the services to be open by November 2007. Until it opened, Maidstone was the only service area on the 50-mile M20 motorway. The Name Folkestone, until recently, didn't actually have a name. Stop 24, the operator, called it Stop 24 and Extra, who own the petrol station and lease it out to Shell, called it Folkestone. As if this wasn't enough, the locals called it Westenhanger and the Highways Agency called it Saltwood! The signs on the road didn't use to refer to it by name, simply as 'services and port early arrivals'. However, as of June 13th 2015, the signs refer to them as Folkestone services. Stop 24 services is a motorway service station on the M20 motorway near Folkestone in Kent. They are the second to be built on the motorway and were opened in 2007. The services are found off Junction 11 at Westenhanger. They contain a petrol station, parking for both cars and lorries, and a number of shops including W H Smith a foreign exchange facility called Xchange. Now open is the lorry park with 82 parking spaces and customs clearance facilities provided by ChannelPorts Ltd Junctions 10 to 13 of the M20 motorway were opened in 1981.[1] Prior to the construction of the services, the proposed site was subjected to an archaeological investigation. This was because the area was close to known archaeological sites. Shards of pottery dating from the 1st–4th centuries were discovered and there may have been a Roman settlement between the current site of the services and line of the nearby Roman road from Lympne to Canterbury Sitting against the Channel Tunnel Rail Link, Folkestone officially opened on the 9th January 2008 but the services themselves actually opened a few days earlier (before any of the signs were put up), giving them the nickname 'the secret services'. Many of the units didn't open until a few days later, and the hotel, a Days Inn, wasn't scheduled to open until Autumn 2008. However, it wasn't built at all and to this day, there is no hotel at the site. It's located at the first exit after the Channel Tunnel, perhaps making lorry drivers from France navigate local traffic on their way to the toilet wasn't the smartest of ideas. Having been removed from just about every service station, Wimpy made a surprising return to the services. It was then removed again in 2013. Planning Several plans for these services were originally submitted in the early 1990s, but the Department for Transport rejected them all as it said they weren't suitable. In 2010 Henry Boot Developments tried to sue several companies for misrepresenting the number of visitors, facilities and signs on the motorway these services would get. The case was dismissed. The original plans were for the services to be open by November 2007. Until it opened, Maidstone was the only service area on the 50-mile M20 motorway. The Name Folkestone, until recently, didn't actually have a name. Stop 24, the operator, called it Stop 24 and Extra, who own the petrol station and lease it out to Shell, called it Folkestone. As if this wasn't enough, the locals called it Westenhanger and the Highways Agency called it Saltwood! The signs on the road didn't use to refer to it by name, simply as 'services and port early arrivals'. However, as of June 13th 2015, the signs refer to them as Folkestone services. | ||||
