News in Thurrock

TWO more controversial sites being considered for social housing by Thurrock Council have been jettisoned.

News of the authorities plan to consider development on 20 sites across Thurrock was exclusively broken by Thurrock Nub News in February this year.

PLANS are moving on apace for the proposed new 'London Resort' leisure site which will be built on the Swanscombe Peninsula on the Thames opposite Tilbury and Grays.

The huge new development - described as the UK equivalent of Disneyland - has been almost a decade in the planning and there have been many false dawns.

A MEMBER of Thurrock Council's Cabinet has slammed fellow councillors for their decision to back a housing scheme in his ward – and has called on them to change their minds when the planning application comes before them again next week.

As exclusively reported on Thurrock Nub News in March, councillors on the planning committee voted to go against their officers' advice and back the application for up to 161 new homes on Thurrock Marshes with access from Churchill Road in Little Thurrock.

CASH from central government will offset most of a near £10 million loss projected for Thurrock Council as it deals with the coronavirus pandemic.

Next week's Corporate Services Overview and Scrutiny Committee will hear a report from Corprorate Finance director Sean Clark which reveals the total cost of responding to Covid-19 will be around £9.7million by the end of July.

A YOUNG man a was assaulted and injured by three men who broke into a property in Richmond Road in Grays.

The aggravated burglary took place yesterday (Tuesday, 2 June) when the men broke in and assaulted a teenager inside. He was later taken to hospital with a head injury.

A THURROCK councillor has called on the authority to act quickly to move on a group of Travellers who have camped by the side of a busy borough road junction.

The Travellers, with three caravans and a number of vans and vehicles pulled up on land adjacent to the roundabout linking Wood View, River View and the B174 Chadwell bypass at Chadwell St Mary around 6pm this evening (Tuesday, 2 June).

A HIGH speed chase ended with a car crashing in the front garden and drive of a Thurrock home.

At one point a car being pursued by Essex Police's traffic division was clocked at 110mph in a 50mph zone.

FOUR teams of firefighters from Thurrock successfully tackled a significant blaze at a rural scrapyard which has left a large plume of smoke drifting over parts of the borough.

The started around 5.30om at the EMR Scrapyard on Station Road, just outside East Tilbury.

TRAFFIC problems in the area of Lakeside shopping centre and retail park were exacerbated this afternoon by a broken down lorry which was in a dangerous condition.

Significant delays were being caused by a backlog of traffic queuing to get into the McDonalds drive-thru on the retail park and then the container lorry broke down right in the middle of the main exit road.

THE first opening of a MacDonalds drive-thru in Thurrock has brought congestion that has delayed buses and caused traffic congestion.

The McDonalds on the Lakeside retain park in West Thurrock was one of 162 locations across the country that reopened for drive-thru business only today and it has proved to be a magnet for fast food fans.