If the proposals were to go ahead, improvements to the road network around Borough Green would need to be made, which could include a bypass around the village. Villagers have been campaigning for many years for a bypass to take through traffic away from the centre of Borough Green and the neighbouring village of Platt.

Despite Kent County Council funding some preparatory work during the 1990s when the Dark Hill roundabout was built on the A25 and the bridge under the London to Maidstone East railway line was widened, there is currently no funding in place from either the Government or KCC to build the bypass. Borough Green acts as a shopping centre for neighbouring villages and has an important local primary school. If the bypass was funded by the applicants as part of the road improvements needed for the freight terminal development, it would bring considerable environmental and safety benefits for both Borough Green and Platt.

As part of the development proposals it is intended to provide a route through the site that would link in with the proposed A227 bypass and extend it to create a bypass of Borough Green and Platt. The A227 bypass is a longstanding aspiration of Kent County Council (KCC), the local highway authority, and the land is safeguarded in the Local Plan. The A227 bypass provides a route from the A227 to the south and the A25 to the west directly to the A20. From the A20 traffic can access the M26 and the M20.

This bypass will remove traffic that is currently following the A227 through Borough Green. It will also remove a proportion of traffic that is currently following the A25 through Borough Green and Platt to access the A20 at Wrotham Heath. The proposed KCC scheme does not however provide a complete bypass of the A25 and the majority of existing traffic will still be following this route.