M20 eastbound entry slip at Junction 8 shut until tomorrow evening

The entry slip road onto the M20 eastbound at Junction 8 is closed for construction work, with the closure active now and due to remain in place until 20:00 tomorrow, according to the estate's own traffic monitoring instrument. Drivers looking to join the eastbound carriageway at that junction — which serves the Leeds Castle/Hollingbourne area — will need to find an alternative route onto the motorway during the closure window. The wider picture on the M20 corridor is one of overlapping roadworks rather than an isolated incident. Londontraffic.org's live listing for the motorway shows a roadworks scheme between Junctions 5 and 8 eastbound already "Currently Active", running from 20:04 on 23 June 2026 through to 06:00 on 8 July 2026, according to [2]. A parallel scheme is under way westbound between Junctions 10 and 8, active from 20:10 on 22 June 2026 until 06:00 on 10 July 2026, per the same source. Those longer-running schemes sit alongside a string of nightly lane and slip closures logged up and down the route — at Junctions 1, 2, 6, 7, 9, 10A and 11 among others — mostly scheduled for overnight hours between 20:00 and 06:00, though the source's own text is fragmentary and does not spell out exact lane numbers or dates for every entry. None of the material sourced specifies which contractor is carrying out the Junction 8 slip closure or gives a reason beyond "roadworks are planned" or "construction," so the precise nature of the works is unconfirmed. Separately, National Highways' Operation Brock page — the standing contraflow system used to manage Channel-bound HGV traffic on the M20 during cross-Channel disruption — currently shows the contraflow "open for westbound and London bound traffic," according to [1]. That page does not reference the Junction 8 eastbound slip closure directly; it deals with the freight-management contraflow rather than routine slip and lane closures, and it notes separately that National Highways closes the M20 "from time to time" to maintain the moveable concrete barrier used in Brock, which is a distinct type of closure from the one flagged here. For Wayne, the practical takeaway is narrow but immediate: the Junction 8 eastbound entry slip is not usable until tomorrow evening. Traffic wanting to head towards Ashford, Folkestone or the coast from that junction will need to pick up the motorway further along, or via local roads, until the closure lifts. Given the density of other planned works logged on this stretch of the M20 through early-to-mid July — including active eastbound and westbound schemes either side of Junction 8 — anyone routing through this corridor over the coming fortnight should expect further disruption beyond just this one closure. What to watch next: whether the Junction 8 slip reopens on schedule at 20:00 tomorrow, and whether National Highways issues any update tying it to the broader Operation Brock contraflow status.