"The village has been cut off for through traffic for two days now and traffic re routed through Orchard Road/Tamarisk Road. You can imagine the mayhem for these roads, especially Tamarisk with its little chicanes each 100 yards!
On Thursday night, Thurrock Council’s planning department rejected their application to erect a 41 foot phone mast on the corner of Warren Lane and Clock House Lane .
Naya Naqvi, chief executive of Thurrock Council for Voluntary Service, says early intervention helped to persuade the local authority to protect £625k in sector grants
Over the last two years, the Warm and Healthy Homes Partnership has offered a range of options that can improve homes across the region, with over 3,000 residents being lifted out of fuel poverty.
The recent spat regarding the discussion of contracts "in camera" at the end of a Labour Cabinet meeting may not have made much sense. The Tories did it all the time but that perhaps, wasn't the point. It was keeping the Tories in profile.
EACH month, we will peruse the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) to see what questions people have been asking and outlining the responses.
Needless to say, Thurrock Council is the recipient for a lot of questions and on some occasions, the answers often raise more questions.
YourThurrock understands that Mayor Anne Cheale, former Mayor Ian Harrison and his wife, former Lady Mayoress Daphne Hart have all been served with expulsion notices by new Chairman, Orsett councillor Mike Revell.
However, Angie is not averse to getting her hands dirty in her ward. Recently, we caught up with Angie in the thick of it as he and fellow councillor, Diana Hale set about cleaning up their ward
Consultancy firm Knox D’Arcy, which carried out the research, said if all councils improved to match the private sector, they could increase productivity by a third and do the same amount of work with 500,000 fewer staff.
Rob is often seen out and about in his ward, dealing with the nuts and bolts of constituents concerns and over at Delafield Park, Rob has highlighted a way of saving money for the council with a bit of smart thinking.
Residents were shocked to discover that a newspaper article (Aug 2008) from www.roadtransport.com where Transportation Manager Ed Vokes is quoted as saying that the council wanted lorry drivers to use the Titan Lorry Park.
"I am particularly disappointed that, when I asked them at the Cabinet meeting, the Labour Cabinet would not show leadership by committing to voluntarily giving up 5% of their allowances to help save some of these much valued services.”
Cabinet also agreed they would withdraw a £75,000 saving planned for “street cleaning and cleanliness of streets”, and cut the proposed £10,000 “locking parks and cemeteries” and “autumn horticultural planting” savings by half.
