A PETITION has been launched to try and force Thurrock Council to introduce a weight limit on a road through a local village.

The petition has been organised to try and impose a reduction in HGV traffic on Church Road and Fen Lane in Bulphan and has been set up by local community stalwart Janet McCheyne.

She says: "I have submitted a petition to Thurrock Council to put a weight limit on the route through Bulphan (Church Road/Fen Lane). This petition has just been launched: please sign this so that Cllr Barry Johnson can present it to the council.

"It must be signed by 5 August 2021. Here is the link.

"You have to register to be able to sign it but I think we need to do this because HGVs are contributing to damaging the road surface, damaging the verges and the run-offs taking surface water off the roads into the ditches, in some cases damaging people's boundaries, at the bends near the church and school, these cannot be negotiated without overhanging the pavement or the opposite carriageway and slow-moving vehicles turning in and out of Church Road from A128 are an additional hazard on an already quite dangerous junction."