THURROCK Council has announced it is to remove controversial speed bumps it installed in a local village.

The traffic calming measures were installed either side of the rail crossing in East Tilbury little more than a year ago.

At the time the measures were mocked by local residents as ineffective and a waste of money.

That was a view shared by local ward councillors Fraser Massey and Sue Sammons who said the council had ignored local experience and advice.

In a video interview with Nub News Cllr Sammons said: "Cllr Sammons said: "These bumps are not going to make the slightest bit of impact on the speed and movement on any vehicles.

"It is a waste of money and does not solve the problems. I would much rather have seen speed cameras introduced. The problem then would have been solved."

Villagers have slammed the council in the wake of the recent announcement that the bumps will be levelled, with work starting tomorrow (Wednesday, 8 November) and lasting a week.

Cllr Massey says: "The Council (like many in England) got a lot of funding early on in covid to try and make roads safer for pedestrians and cyclists, the result was the bumps, 20mph zones at various parts of Thurrock. After local consultation with the public it was a majority that said they wanted them removed.

"I checked and the money being used to remove them is coming out of the original funding from National Government.

"I only wished the Council had more imagination and come up with transport schemes which would have been welcomed, myself and Cllr Sammons along with the local forum all warned the Council they were not suitable before the works commenced."

News of the bumps' demise comes just a couple of days after the last of tens of thousands of HGVs that had blighted the village on the way to and from a landfill site over decades rolled out of the tip.