Ashford Borough Council

Welcome to the Ashford Port Health website

Ashford Borough Council is the statutory body responsible for undertaking official border controls on a range of commodities including imported high-risk food and feed, which covers products of animal origin (POAO) and high-risk food and feed of non-animal origin (HRFNAO), organics, plastic food contact materials from China and Hong Kong, and managing illegal, unregistered and unregulated (IUU) fishing controls imported through the Channel Tunnel.

The Council is also the statutory body responsible for checking POAO and HRFNAO products that enter GB from the EU via the ferry terminal at the Port of Dover. This is because there is no Border Control Post (BCP) located at the ferry terminal to control these commodity types.

These official controls are undertaken by Ashford Borough Council at the inland BCP at Sevington Inland Border Facility (IBF).

All POAO and HRFNAO imported through the Channel Tunnel or via the ferry terminal Dover, must be pre-notified to Ashford Borough Council for checks at Sevington.

It is imperative that the CHEDs for all such imports record Sevington as the correct BCP.

Should you need additional advice or clarification please do not hesitate to contact us.

All UK BCP's can be found using the gov.uk website.

View government poster with directions to the site and translations [pdf] 520KB.