News in Thurrock

WITH the lockdown easing month by month, Thurrock Nub News has switched our What's On section back on - and we want to help publicise your event.

Whether it is an online concert or class, or a fundraising event for later in the year when restrictions may be eased further, or a community organisation meeting we want to feature it on Thurrock Nub News.

A CALL has gone out for volunteers interested in forming part of a new action groupo to breathe life in Coalhouse Fort at East Tilbury.

The Fort has been closed down and the public kept out since the collapse of a support group at the turn of the year.

AN application has been submitted to Thurrock Council to demolish garages and build two flats in Stanford-le-Hope.

Originally the proposal on land to the rear of Fairview Avenue was to build four homes, but that has been reduced.

POLICE have issued an e-fit image of a man and appealed for information about a raid on a Thurrock store.

A man went into the Co-op in Lodge Lane, Socketts Heath, Grays, shortly after 7.20pm on Saturday, 27 June and threatened members of staff with a knife.

PAEOPHILE hunter groups - who have played a part in bringing a number of men in Thurrock to court over recent years, can carry on after the decision of a Supreme Court appeal was announced.

The UK's top court delivered its verdict after considering an appeal from a man who was targeted by so-called 'paedophile hunters' who impersonate children in online chatrooms in order to expose people who they consider to be sexual predators.

THURROCK Council is bringing in extra staff to try and keep up with weekly bin collections across the borough after the impact of Covid-19 has put the service under unprecedented strain.

Over recent weeks residents in all wards across Thurrock have reported some delays in the collection of their green general waste bins and blue recycling bins. Brown garden and kitchen waste bins are currently been collected on a fortnightly basis but there have been some issues there to.

GRANGEWATERS Outdoor Education Centre will be opening its gates to visitors again after the weekend.

A TOP scientist has been appointed to help plan out the use of cars in the heart of the planned £1 billion Purfleet-on-Thames regeneration project.

Professor Trevor Davies, former director of the climatic research unit at the University of East Anglia, has been appointed as chief sustainability advisor by the development company Urban Catalyst who have been appointed to create a blueprint for the new town.

WARD councillors and residents have welcomed news that a bid to extend the hours that HGVs can use Wharf Road in Stanford-le-Hope has been rejected.

However, one councillor from the town argued in favour of the extension – which would allow additional lorries to access and leave Stanhope Industrial estate from 6am in the morning. Cllr Gary Byrne fears that not allowing the vehicles access could bring job losses.

PLANS to add more than 30 new bedrooms to houses on a new Thurrock housing development were quickly nodded through by planning councillors last night (Thursday, 16 July).

Developers Redrow returned to the planning committee for the fourth time since the original planning permission for the Shires development was granted to change the number and nature of three, four and five bedroom homes on the estate.