News in Thurrock

THURROCK residents have been urged to make their voices heard in the latest round of consultations about the Lower Thames Crossing.

As reported on Thurrock Nub News last month Highways England recently announced yet another major consultation – the third to take place with Thurrock residents as they try to plot a route for the Lower Thames Cross through the borough.

THE Essex & Herts air ambulance landed on a narrow green adjacent to a Stanford-le-Hope residential estate this morning as it rushed a doctor to a nearby medical emergency which involved a young girl.

Residents on the Maple Park estate off Butts Lane came to their windows and doors around 9.15am to watch the helicopter, which had been scrambled from its base at Earls Colne, make a landing.

POLICE in Thurrock are seeking the help of residents in communities close to borough ports as they look to improve the way they fight crime in those areas.

The Essex force is calling on residents in Corringham, Tilbury and Purfleet - all of which have ports that generate a vast amount of lorry traffic - to come forward and help formulate future policy.

HOUSEBUILDERS Redrow are seeking permission to squeeze more profit out of their controversial green belt development in the east of the borough.

The debate over whether to grant permission for the housing estate on land off Lower Dunton Road raged for several years and permission was finally granted after the original developers agreed to fund a new building to be used as hospice and operated by St Luke's Hospice.

RESIDENTS in Stanford-le-Hope are urging the Thurrock planning councillors to stand up for them by opposing plans to allow HGVs moving in and out of an industrial park to be on the roads an hour earlier.

Councillors are due to discuss whether to allow lorries to operate from the Stanhope Industrial Park from 6am rather than 7am during a planning meeting on Thursday (16 July).

A THURROCK pub is to close for 72 hours and customers who visited it yesterday may have to go into self- isolation after it was confirmed today that a visitor has Covid-19.

The Crown and Anchor on Aveley High Street is to undergo a deep clean after it was visited yesterday (Sunday, 12 July) by a man who became ill today and has since been confirmed as having the virus.

A MAN has been charged with attempted murder in connection with an incident where two women were injured in Tilbury during an incident at the Amazon Fulfilment centre.

Officers were called to the site Windrush Road at around 9.35am yesterday (Sunday, 12 July).

POLICE are investigating an incident in East Tilbury in which a 16-year-old boys is reported to have been stabbed.

Officers were called shortly before 1.35am today (Monday 13 July), after being alerted that a teenager had been stabbed in Queen Mary Avenue, East Tilbury.

PLANS for a solar power generation station on a former landfill site close to South Ockendon have been put in limbo because of the impact of a revised route for the proposed Lower Thames Crossing through Thurrock.

Planning consent was granted to REG Solarpower Ltd and Veolia ES by Thurrock Council ) for the building of the solar development at Ockenden Landfill Site close to Mollands Lane, Buckles Lane and Medebridge Road in January 2016.

THURROCK Council has confirmed it has employed privately contracted enforcement officers to patrol the borough ensuring that social distancing regulations are met – and that shops, pubs and businesses adhere to the rules.

However, it says they have not issued any fines but they have been offering assistance in public areas.