M20 eastbound slip closure at Junction 8 confirmed active until Tuesday evening

The eastbound entry slip road at Junction 8 of the M20 is closed for construction work, according to the estate's own traffic instrument, with the closure active now and due to lift at 20:00 on Tuesday 25 August. Drivers planning to join the eastbound carriageway at that junction should expect to find the slip unavailable until then. Corroborating detail is thin. A search of the londontraffic.org listings for the M20 turns up a large number of entries touching Junction 8, but none that matches this specific closure precisely [1]. The closest related items are a "Currently Active" eastbound scheme between Junctions 5 and 8, running from 20:04 on 23 June 2026 to 06:00 on 8 July 2026, and a westbound scheme between Junctions 10 and 8, active from 20:10 on 22 June 2026 to 06:00 on 10 July 2026 [1]. Both are described in the source as ongoing roadworks schemes rather than a single slip-road entry closure, and their listed dates do not line up with the trigger's Tuesday 25 August end time, so it isn't possible to confirm from this material whether they are the same works referenced in the alert or separate ones [1]. The wider picture from that same source is one of heavy, near-continuous overnight disruption across the M20 corridor through the second half of 2026, with dozens of listed lane and slip closures at junctions from J1 through to J11, mostly scheduled for the 20:00–06:00 window and mostly still marked "Pending" [1]. Junction 7's eastbound entry slip is separately listed as losing lane one on a recurring nightly basis, and there are stacked lane closures on the eastbound carriageway between Junctions 7 and 8 as well as between 6 and 7, all attributed to "Roadworks are planned" with status pending [1]. None of these entries is explicitly the Junction 8 eastbound entry slip named in the trigger. National Highways' own closure report, which covers advance notice of full closures on the strategic road network, returned no results at all for the criteria checked, stating only that "Sorry, there were no results found that matched your criteria" [2]. That leaves the estate's instrument as the only confirmed record of this particular Junction 8 closure; neither of the two reporting sources fetched independently verifies its exact scope, contractor, or reason beyond the generic label "construction" carried in the trigger itself. What is established: the eastbound entry slip at J8 is shut now and reopens by 20:00 Tuesday. What is not established from the material gathered: whether this links to the two active schemes flagged around J8 in the wider listing [1], and whether National Highways will publish anything further given its own report showed nothing for this closure [2]. What to watch: whether National Highways' closure report updates to include this J8 eastbound slip before Tuesday, and whether the reopening actually happens on schedule at 20:00.