Cllr Smith said: “If a road has a substantial number of signs stolen, that road will be prioritised as high ranking; warning signs rank the highest priority, regulatory signs next and directional signage as the least high priority.
Conservative councillor, Shane Hebb successfully contested the seat in May. We caught up with Shane recently in Hardie Park to assess how the first eight months have been. In the chamber, Shane has been a confident performer,both at full council and at planning and certainly seems embedded in the east of the borough machine.
National Grid undertook a wide-ranging public consultation and completed exhaustive technical studies into the plans for connecting the power station to the transmission system (or National Grid if preferred). However, a recent review found that with fewer power generators than originally anticipated needing connecting to the grid in the area, the power station could be connected using the existing substation at South Coryton.
FOR THOSE of you who have not followed the story regarding the Mucking tip and the objections made by local councillors and residents, then, one of the concerns is regarding the number of lorries thundering down the Walton Hall Road.
A meeting is being held on Thursday 19th January at 8pm for anyone interested in getting fair trade in Stanford and Corringham “off the ground” in 2012. The meeting will be at the 24-7 Stanford community house at 217 Southend Road, Stanford-le-Hope, and anyone is welcome to attend.
A number of students walked down to the sheltered housing complex at Kynoch Court to sing carols, deliver hampers as well as sit and chat to the borough’s more senior residents. The residents were delighted and heaped praise on the students for their wonderful singing and impeccable manners.
THE three ward councillors in the Homesteads took the chief executive of Thurrock Council on a tour of the ward to highlight to him the issues closest to the residents hearts. Cllrs Tolson, MacPherson and Halden showed Graham Farrant the controversial Foxfield Drive where planning has been refused many times and also discussed highway issues,arboriculture issues and antisocial behaviour.
A SENIOR Conservative councillor told the council last night (Thursday) that leaving parks open was proving to be a false economy.
Homesteads councillor, Sue MacPherson presented a petition signed by a hundred residents after numerous complaints of anti-social behaviour in Balstonia Park.
Stanford East and Corringham Town councillor Phil Anderson said: “I’m delighted that we are now going to see action to tackle excessive speeds on Southend Road. I think the final piece of evidence that convinced the council of the need to act was the speed survey. When nearly 50% of drivers are breaking the speed limit and some are doing up to 70mph in a 30 zone, it was obvious that doing nothing is not an option.
OUR MAIN focus was in Grays for the remembrance services yesterday but there were services of remembrance all across the borough. The central area near St Margarets’s church was host to a very moving service.
Members of the committee expressed deep reservations about the application. Chris Paveley said: “I have deep reservations about this. Let them take fifteen years but in an application that sees the roads safe.”
IT IS something that the borough does particularly well. On Sunday, all across the borough, people will attend remembrance services and stand to attention to mark their respects for those who have given their lives in service of their country.
Mike and May are volunteers at the Bata Reminiscence and Resource Centre in East Tilbury Library which is celebrating its tenth anniversary next year. An open day will be held on April 18. Several members expressed an interest in visiting the centre then. Pat Arnold gave an appreciative vote of thanks.
A long-term, leading critic of the site is local ward councillor Barry Palmer who, when plans for the extension were announced in June, said: “This latest application is very frustrating and devastating for the residents of East Tilbury ward and part of Stanford-le-Hope West who were looking forward to the end of tipping activities at Mucking which have brought so much blight and misery to the area from the stench, dust and flies emanating from the site’s activities and the danger, intimidation and damage by HGV movements to and from the site for 30 years.
HASSENGATE Medical Centre has become the first GP Surgery in South Essex to become accredited with the Department of Health, national quality mark; ‘You’re Welcome’. The national quality mark, aimed at all health services throughout the country used by residents aged 11-19, highlights services which are young people friendly and committed to developing and improving services.
The complaints range from failing to stop, driving around the patrol when they are on the road, using abusive language, threatening of physical violence and loudly revving engines while the patrol and children are in the road
Fancy dress is encouraged but not the usual 31st October theme! The church wants children to come as knights, princesses, kings or queens. Parents/carers must be in attendance with any children who come, for safety reasons.
In 23 separate cases, vehicles were travelling in excess of 70mph, sometimes around 3pm when schoolchildren are crossing the road. Stanford East and Corringham Town councillor Phil Anderson said: “This speed survey confirms what residents have been telling us for months now. There is a serious speeding problem on Southend Road, and when combined with the blind bends in the area we really do have a tragic accident waiting to happen.
Mr Clarke said: “In 2009-2010, there were 88 homes completed. In 2010-2011, there were 290.” Mr Clarke could not give a figure for how many had been completed since April of this year. Mr Lowe asked Mr Clarke if he felt that there was an urgent need for housebuilding such as the Butts Lane development in the borough as the shortfall was now approaching the 4,000 mark.
He said: “We are not nimbys. We have worked with a number of planning applications in the borough. Indeed, we are, at this moment, working with a development on the Manorway. “But you must also consider that the Planning Inspectorate has made a rod for its own back in Thurrock with the Howard Tenens decision
Cllr Nicklen said: “Criminals are targeting road signs and traffic furniture in and around the Stanford bypass area and I want it to stop. “All over Stanford there are poles with no boards on them which is an eye sore and is also causing uncertainty for drivers.
LAST WEEK, members of a Kenyan Masai Tribe visited the Copland Road school as part of a ten week tour of the UK. The Key Stage 2 pupils and staff were all enthralled by the costumes, singing, dancing and jumping of these special visitors and all attendees also got to join in with some of the singing and jumping too.
Ambulance crews were on the scene and police called for traffic control and to investigate the incident. Assistant Divisional Officer Tony Clark said: “The appliance involved is a party bus in service as a limousine and has no association with Essex County Fire and Rescue Service.”
A spokesperson said: “Thurrock Council has made what we feel is a very strong case relying on current and emerging planning laws. We will be concentrating our efforts around the intimate knowledge we have of the area and also what is quite often missing from these Inquiries that being a commonsense approach and interpretation of the local plans, many of which were developed with the help of local people.”
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