News in Thurrock

A BID has been put to Thurrock Council to retain a large lorry parking yard with other facilities including a refueling station on the London Gateway logistics park.

Temporary retention of a lorry parking facility, comprising three haulage yards and an ad-hoc multi user HGV parking area, with office floor space, open storage and a canteen facility. Access infrastructure comprising a single carriageway road. Ancillary welfare, HGV refueling and washing facilities, car and cycle parking, services infrastructure including an electricity sub-station, drainage, landscaping, lighting and boundary treatment. South 3, Pacific Avenue, Stanford-le-Hope, SS17 9FA. Ref. No: 21/00072/FUL | Received: Mon 18 Jan 2021 | Validated: Tue 26 Jan 2021 | Status: Awaiting decision.

A PLAN has been put to Thurrock Council for 17 flats to be built on land in Aveley.

The site of the development is 26 to 28 Purfleet Road, which has already been cleared of all former buildings.

A THIRD Covid-19 vaccination centre is about to be opened in the borough, Thurrock Nub News understands.

Sources within the local health service have told Nub News that what is described as a large-scale vaccination centre will be opening in the coming week at the Alastair Farquharson Centre operated by NELFT NHS Foundation Trust at Thurrock Community Hospital.

AN innovative way has been found to keep emergency teams working for Essex & Herts Air Ambulance stay safe during the Covid-19 pandemic.

The service is protecting patients and crew members by decontaminating crews and equipment with specially-prepared water containing salt and electricity which instantly kills 99.99% of bacteria, fungi and viruses.

THURROCK'S Adult Community College is putting on a free course this coming weekend for local people to learn how to trim hair.

The online webinar to help you learn the basic skills you need to tidy up hair will take place on Saturday, 6 February starting at 10am.

A MULTI-billion pound theme park scheme that is set to have a massive impact on Thurrock has moved a step nearer becoming reality after the proposal was accepted for examination by the Planning Inspectorate.

That means that in the next 18 months the proposed London Resort to be built on the Swanscombe Peninsula between Gravesend and Dartford will be subject to a detailed examination of the proposal before the government has the final say on the application. The entire process could take up to 18 months to conclude.

DETECTIVES are appealing for witnesses to a burglary in which two men forced their way into a home and assaulted a young boy.

The incident happened at around 12.50pm on Thursday, 28 January in York Avenue, Corringham.

POLICE have confirmed they are not investigating anything suspicious following an incident in Chadwell St Mary on Friday, which started at around 3pm,

Though the emergency services attended the incident in numbers, with firefighters and the Essex Air Ambulance helicopter present, it has been confirmed it was a medical emergency that was dealt with by the East of England Ambulance Service.

RISING waters have promoted concern this evening about the welfare of horses at a second Thurrock stables.

Over recent days Thurrock Nub News has reported several times from White Stables in North Stifford where the Mardyke river has burst its banks and waters have seeped across fields into the stables.

POLICE and fire services were alerted at around 4am this morning after a small part of a cliff came crashing down.

The incident happened to the rear of apartments on Caspian Way, Purfleet. The road at the top of the cliff, Tank