Keeping your home safe from fire is an important part of living safe and well That’s why we offer free Home Safety Visits to all residents across Essex The fire has been safely brought under control and crews are now scaling back their response ready to hand the scene over to the site management Fire Officers will carry out an investigation with the site owners and its equipment suppliers into the cause of the fire when it is safe to do so Firefighters are currently responding to a fire at a battery energy storage site (BESS), currently under construction in East Tilbury The site consists of multiple containers housing battery units Firefighters have been using specialist equipment including thermal imaging cameras and drones to monitor temperatures and manage the fire in a controlled manner Water has been used to prevent heat transfer and crews continue to oversee the situation Thanks to the swift response and collaborative efforts Crews are expected to remain on-site for the rest of the day to make sure the area is completely safe An investigation into the cause of the fire will take place once it has been fully extinguished and conditions allow Essex County Fire and Rescue Service Headquarters Request a fire report or make a Freedom of Information request here Make compliments and complaints here A fire which broke out at an under-construction BESS project in Essex last week was brought under control and then handed back to site management within 24 hours Essex County Fire and Rescue Service said that on Wednesday (19 February) firefighters responded to a fire at the battery energy storage system (BESS) project in East Tilbury With close monitoring and a carefully controlled response the crew contained the fire and made sure there was no risk to the wider community The next day (20 February) the Service issued an update saying they were able to scale back their response and hand the site back over to site management BESS owner-operator Statera Energy confirmed to Energy-Storage.news that the project in question belongs to the firm The firm is building a 300MW/600MWh BESS in Tilbury, called Thurrock, one of the largest under-construction projects in the UK alongside a 270MW ‘flexible generation plant’ Statera said it would not be issuing a statement in addition to the Fire Service’s But the location of the Thurrock project matches that of the fire site in East Tilbury See the Essex County Fire and Rescue Service’s updates here See the full original version of this article on Energy-Storage.news. Update: After this article was initially published Statera provided Energy-Storage.news with the following statement which confirmed it was the Thurrock project The spokersperson said that construction activities can now resume while an investigation into the cause of the fire is underway: a fire occurred in a single containerised battery unit at Statera Energy’s Thurrock BESS site, which is currently under construction and the Fire Brigade arrived on the scene within 10 minutes The fire was swiftly contained by implementing a water curtain and it was safely extinguished by Thursday afternoon There was no risk to the public at any stage the Fire Brigade has concluded its response and the site has been open for construction activities since Friday The strategic safety planning of the site which was designed and built in full compliance with NFPA standards including the provision of both fire hydrants and a water lagoon as well as adequate spacing between BESS units and includes a pre-agreed emergency response plan with the local fire service all contributed to a safe and efficient resolution of the incident A thorough investigation is underway to determine the cause of the fire and implement measures to mitigate any risk of future occurrences We are grateful to the emergency services who acted swiftly to contain the incident in close collaboration with the local council and our personnel FEARS are growing that developers are eying up Thurrock’s green belt land after a plans for another 550 homes were unveiled Summix GET Developments Ltd has informed Thurrock Council it intends to submit plans for 550 homes land to Rear of Gobions Park Princess Margaret Road in East Tilbury and land part of EDL Operations in  Mucking Wharf Road The 87-acre metropolitan green belt site is in a flood zone and requires extensive environmental impact assessments ahead of a formal application being submitted the planning committee are likely to come under pressure to approve the plans in the face of the Government’s stated intention of new homes. The council also recently lost a lost an appeal to the planning inspectorate over a development in Linford landing the authority with an £87,000 legal bill With less than one year’s supply of housing this also weighed against the council at the appeal and would be likely to do so again Summix says 50 per cent of the new homes will be affordable and will range from one to four-bedrooms A new access road on to Princess Margaret Road will be built He said: “Another speculative application on the greenbelt in East Tilbury at a summer engagement event residents rightly voiced concerns regarding the dangerous road access to the site alongside the general increase in traffic on the road network which are not designed to handle the amount of houses already built or have planning to be built on the greenbelt “Sadly with many of the developments built on the greenbelt in the area the decision will been made not at a local level but by the secretary of state With the current Government direction of travel I suspect more and more of the greenbelt in Thurrock will be developed turning what is much needed high grade agricultural land into unwanted (at least locally) housing estates.” In a request to Thurrock Council for a scoping opinion the developer said: “It is evident that there is an urgent need to allocate a substantial number of new sites for housing development to address the lack of housing supply and slow delivery in Thurrock Before they do anymore developement -IN ANY AREA- there should be detailed plans to improve the social and road structure by that I mean- Facilities like Doctors-Clinics- tranport links-Decent roads and preferably some social area’s where residents can go to; and that is before considering the inpact these extra properties will have on the sewerage system The majoity of families now have more than one car- parking facilities- will these properties have their own garages built in or will it be ‘Parking anywhere you can find room Δdocument.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value" A planning inspector has allowed Mulberry Strategic Land’s plans for up to 1,000 homes on Green Belt land in East Tilbury The applicant’s plans for up to 830 homes if the Lower Thames Crossing goes ahead or 1,000 homes if it does not on a 74.4-hectare site off Muckingford Road were given the thumbs down by Thurrock Council’s planning committee in July But Mulberry’s appeal on the grounds of non-determination has been upheld by planning inspector Richard Schofield In his report he states: “I have found that the proposed development would harm the Green Belt for reasons of inappropriateness and loss of openness I have not found any other harms arising from the development proposed I give substantial weight to the harms to the Green Belt deliver market and affordable housing in an area with an extremely poor record of delivery of both with no signs of this improving in the future I have attributed very substantial weight to this.” The council received 180 objections to the proposal following consultations launched last year These included fears access to the site was unsafe urban sprawl into the Green Belt and loss of farmland and wildlife © Eastern Echo (powered by ukpropertyforums.com) Sign up to receive our weekly free journal, The Forum here and website in this browser for the next time I comment UK Property Forums enable forums and events in the property sector which help to create business development opportunities Office Address:UK Property Forums Ltd is located in Reading 0203 478 7340info@ukpropertyforums.com We are using cookies to give you the best experience on our website You can find out more about which cookies we are using or switch them off in settings This website uses cookies so that we can provide you with the best user experience possible Cookie information is stored in your browser and performs functions such as recognising you when you return to our website and helping our team to understand which sections of the website you find most interesting and useful Strictly Necessary Cookie should be enabled at all times so that we can save your preferences for cookie settings we will not be able to save your preferences This means that every time you visit this website you will need to enable or disable cookies again A housing developer has been forced to pay thousands of pounds in fines and costs after leaving an unsightly mess at the The Lawns development site in Coronation Avenue where he has planning permission to build 18 homes pleaded guilty to not complying with a legal order to tidy the site issued to him over a year ago by Thurrock Council when he appeared at Basildon Magistrates Court on Tuesday 9 July 2024 He has to pay £3,400 personally and an additional £3,492 as director of the house building company said: "I hope this case serves as a warning to developers who think they can create a mess disregard warnings and notices from the council "Instead of building the homes he had permission to mess he clearly had no intention of clearing "Now he is facing the consequences of his actions He has to pay out nearly £7,000 in fines and will be forced to clear his site as required by the notice we issued him last April "Residents should not have to put up with the mess left by irresponsible developers This shows that we will always take action to protect our residents and their neighbourhoods." A new council-supported bus service launching in September will link communities in Horndon on the Hill The 375 bus will run from Monday to Saturday 5 times in each direction between 7am and 6:45pm It will start from South Hill Crescent in Horndon on the Hill and ending at Grays Bus Station taking in East Tilbury Station and Coalhouse Fort along the way Cabinet member for Place and the Environment bus service we are bringing buses back to communities in East Tilbury 265 and 374 bus services were withdrawn last September "We have listened to residents and have heard just how important regular and reliable bus services are to these communities That is why we are delighted to introduce the new 375 bus "The 375 will link some of the borough's more remote and rural communities and give them a way for them to reach larger transport hubs such as mainline railway stations and Grays Bus Station said: "It is fantastic to see the council listening to residents and bringing back the bus service they have been campaigning for and I am delighted that it has brought us here with a new bus route being introduced that will serve the local communities of East Tilbury." Thurrock Council is able to support this new service thanks to a successful bid made to the Department for Transport's Bus Service Improvement Plan The 375 bus service is expected to launch in early September 2024 Photo below: Cllr Fraser Massey and Cllr Victoria Holloway with Emma Ramdenee and Kirstie Hattle from the 'Save our bus service' campaign EXPERTS have safely detonated a World War Two device found on a construction site in East Tilbury The device was found to be a 250kg bomb dropped by the Luftwaffe during World War Two It had remained hidden underground and was only uncovered by ongoing construction work in the area Officers immediately worked hard with partners from multiple agencies to secure the scene while Ministry of Defence experts established the safest and most efficient means of disposing of the bomb A 500-metre cordon was in place around the site while numerous specialists prepared to safely detonate the device a temporary closure of the railway line between Grays and Pitsea was implemented but passengers can expect to experience some continuing disruption into the early evening Please continue to check before you travel by visiting the National Rail Enquiries website for the latest on any disruption We would thank the public for their patience while this important work was carried out “Specialists considered a number of options to make this device safe.“It was decided detonation of the device at the scene was preferable to making an attempt to move it.“This decision was taken with the full and continuing consideration of the safety of the public as the number one priority.“This operation required partnership working across a number of agencies rail and power network companies and local councils.“This significant and coordinated response ensured the efficient and safe disposal of this device with the minimum disruption possible.” Limited (if any) available on the door to purchase Dickinns Bar Easter party with entertainment by Lil Reds doors open at 4pm and entertainment finishes at 7pm £5 a ticket in advance or £7.50 on the door for anyone younger than 16 years old Hot dogs will also be sold for £1 on the day Purchase tickets for both events by messaging Dickinns Bar or 07498367355 REFORM UK James McMurdock is concerned by early reports of East Tilbury Village Hall Closure The community group who run the East Tilbury Village Hall has contacted James McMurdock MP warning that Thurrock Council is trying to impose punitive changes to their lease agreement These changes would make the effective operation of the hall entirely unaffordable This could force the community hall to close James McMurdock MP said: “I have written to both the community group and Thurrock Council to get more information on these plans National plans by the Labour Party to remove the Winter Fuel Payment from 90% of pensioners is shocking The elderly in our community should not need to brave an attack from the Labour Party at the local level as well “Loss of this community asset will leave vulnerable people isolated and leave another building empty this will further reduce revenue into the stricken council “This is the latest example of the secondary effects the catastrophic investment scandal is having on our community “I’m very concerned that the wonderful community groups in East Tilbury will be forced to close due to the Council’s actions “We need our community active and engaged Ripping them off and forcing them out with poorly thought-out lease terms makes quality of life in the community worse and the council poorer “The Council has told the group that there is no money available to carry out the essential repairs on the council owned building It appears the council are forcing the hall into a corner which will likely lead to the closure of yet another community asset.” but did not want the offices/flat above the shop he was told that he had to take the office/flat above the shop knowing full well that he had no where to go The shop and flat above stayed empty for several years DEVELOPERS bringing forward much needed homes and green space on land east of Gobions Park are calling on East Tilbury residents to provide further feedback to help shape future plans The request from Summix and Keepmoat follows a recent public consultation event in the village which gathered a wide breadth of feedback on local issues and ideas for the emerging proposals the proposals will include a range of new market and affordable homes the event gave residents an early chance to feed into the proposals following Thurrock Council’s draft allocation of the land for development in their emerging Local Plan particularly around what benefits and improvements they would like to see delivered in the local area Summix and Keepmoat have assembled a nationally respected team of experts in creating sustainable communities to bring forward an exemplar development which responds to local needs and best delivers on the emerging aspirations of the area’s Local Plan.  An interactive online map has also launched giving members of the community who couldn’t attend the event the opportunity to still have their say on the forthcoming proposals The project team will gather all feedback received from the event and the online submissions to help inform the plans which will be subject to extensive technical and design work alongside engagement with statutory bodies prior to the submission of a planning application Summix and Keepmoat will undertake further consultation with residents before an application is submitted A spokesperson for Summix said: “We would like to thank everyone who attended the event and all those who have taken the time to provide us with their feedback so far The comments gathered through the consultation events and online mapping will play a key role in shaping our plans for the site and local area.” “Following the Council’s draft allocation of the site we are looking forward to providing the new homes which respond sensitively to the community feedback received.” and we are keen to continue to obtain the views of the local community before developing and presenting more detailed proposals through further public engagement before we submit our planning application.” For more information about the proposals for Land east of Gobions Park, and to take part in the interactive map, please visit:www.landateasttilbury.co.uk Alternatively, residents can get in touch with the team by emailing info@landateasttilbury.co.uk phoning 0800 148 8911 or writing to us at Freepost MEETING PLACE CONSULTATION Unless you live in ET you will never understand the daily frustrations we go through just trying to get in and out Getting across the train gates is outrageous especially during rush hour Adding another 1000+ cars to this problem will be outrageous We also do not have suitable infrastructure as it is No one cares about the residents of East Tilbury I think the 150 who turned up made their views clear we don’t want anymore building on this estate so do one Councillors have allowed a Thurrock pub to keep its garden renovations after they were carried out without planning permission. The Ship pub in Princess Margaret Road in East Tilbury carried out extensive renovations to a beer garden and children’s play area without planning consent. Following a retrospective application, the council received 30 letters of support from residents who felt there had been “much needed improvements”. However eight residents opposed the work because of “loss of privacy” and noise nuisance. A neighbour who attended a planning committee meeting on August 8 when the application was debated, said an overly high fence had an overbearing effect on his garden. He also feared the level of noise from new play equipment would also affect their lives. And he said neighbours had not been consulted on the work. However, landlady Tracy Simpkins said: “The previous garden over the last couple of years had become unsafe and looked very old so we decided to revamp the beer garden to bring it up to standard that our customers would expect. We also thought about our surrounding neighbours and how we can have the beer garden running without impacting on them. “As for the height of the fence we wanted to make sure that our neighbours had privacy from our customers in the beer garden and to make the beer garden look pleasant.” Ms Simpkins said the high fence meant customers no longer had a view of the neighbour’s washing line and large shed. She added: “There has always been a playground in the pub. Overall we’ve made the garden better.” A report to the committee, said: “The development results in no significant or harmful impact to the appearance of the public house or street scene and would not result in unacceptable impacts upon surrounding neighbour amenity or privacy, and has no adverse highway impacts. “The application has been assessed alongside all relevant adopted Core Strategy policies and found to be compliant and is recommended favourably.” About Latest Posts Christine Sexton Local Democracy Reporter Latest posts by Christine Sexton (see all) Highest civic honours for Southend Tel: 07765530245 Email: sales@yellowad.co.uk Yellow Advertiser68 Crowhill,Godmanchester,Huntingdon,PE29 9NR Tel: 07765530245 Email: mickferris@yellowad.co.uk ESSEX Police are appealing for help to find Brandon Lopez Brandon is described as around 5ft 10ins in height If you have any information as to his whereabouts please call 999 quoting incident 402 of 15 November An unexploded World War Two bomb has been successfully detonated in East Tilbury The bomb was discovered on a construction site off Station Road 5 November Further investigation determined it to be a 250kg device dropped by the Luftwaffe during the Second World War which had remained hidden underground and was only uncovered by ongoing construction work in the area A 500-metre cordon was put in place around the site and a temporary closure of the railway line between Grays and Pitsea was implemented while specialists prepared to safely detonate the device rail and power network companies and local councils worked together to ensure minimum disruption and the safety of the local public “Specialists considered a number of options to make this device safe “It was decided detonation of the device at the scene was preferable to making an attempt to move it “This decision was taken with the full and continuing consideration of the safety of the public as the number one priority “This operation required partnership working across a number of agencies rail and power network companies and local councils “This coordinated response ensured the efficient and safe disposal of this device with the minimum disruption possible.” The East Tilbury bomb echoes a similar incident earlier this year in Keyham in Plymouth, which saw the biggest non-wartime evacuation in the UK and involved teams from multiple agencies working together To read similar articles, check out our Frontline channel James looks after the Daily Digest as well as keeping the website fresh with the latest blue light sector stories All articles by James > We use some essential cookies to make this website work We’d like to set additional cookies to understand how you use GOV.UK remember your settings and improve government services We also use cookies set by other sites to help us deliver content from their services You have accepted additional cookies. 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You can change your cookie settings at any time Freedom of Information releases and corporate reports Map centred on the East Tilbury and Mucking Marshes policy unit boundary This includes the area of marshes from Tilbury Coalhouse Fort to Mucking Flats The flood risk layer shows that some areas of East Tilbury have a 0.1% or higher chance of flooding each year without the existing flood defences The East Tilbury and Mucking Marshes Policy Unit is an area of marshes that extends south from the western side of Stanford-le-Hope towards Coalhouse Fort The local council responsible for this area is Thurrock Council There are many local watercourses including Mucking Creek and the marsh drainage systems on East Tilbury Marshes The proposed Lower Thames Crossing emerges within this area Use the Thames Estuary 2100 (TE2100) map to view all the policy units Much of the freshwater marsh is used for landfill The types of flooding that could affect this policy unit include: Tidal flood defences on the Thames Estuary manage the risk of tidal flooding in this area There are also fluvial drainage system outfalls at East Tilbury Marshes Fluvial flood risk is likely to rise as the sea level rises and fluvial flows increase Potential measures to reduce the flood risk include: The Environment Agency also uses flood alerts and flood warnings to inform people about potential flooding so they can take appropriate action Sign up to receive flood warnings in your area Thames Estuary 2100 sets flood risk management policies for each area of the estuary The policies range from P3 to P5 and outline how we should manage that area’s tidal defences This  means we will maintain flood defences at their current level accepting that the flood risk will increase We need to involve communities to prepare for this flood risk Find out more about flood risk management policies Flood defence owners and infrastructure providers will plan to realign flood defences and improve resilience For further information read outcome 2: improving fixed flood defences The Association of South Essex Local Authorities includes: The Association will work with the Environment Agency to manage the risk of flood and create multiple benefits This should be part of South Essex proposals from strategic plans to landscape-scale environment schemes It should also be in line with the riverside strategy approach There is currently no riverside strategy for this area councils should work with communities to plan how their riverside will look in future Find out more about the riverside strategy approach The Environment Agency will work with Thurrock council and the local community to implement resilience measures to manage the increased flood risk Network Rail will work with councils and the Environment Agency to ensure transport infrastructure in Essex is resilient to increasing flood risk This will support growth in the outer estuary The Thames Estuary Partnership will work with communities the Environment Agency and other partners to scope the need and potential extension of the Thames Strategy East or creation of an alternative Joint Thames Strategy to cover this policy unit Any agreed landscape vision for the river corridor will reflect how increasing tidal flood risk will affect the environment Find out what needs to be done across the whole Thames Estuary Don’t include personal or financial information like your National Insurance number or credit card details A 35-year-old man who is wanted on recall to prison could be in Tilbury is wanted for breaching his licence conditions on Tuesday (November 12) after failing to return to HMP Aylesbury is known to frequent both the east London area and Tilbury in Essex medium build and clean shaven with brown eyes and has tattoos on the right side of his neck Investigating officer Stephanie Macleod said: “Enquiries have been ongoing to locate Slingo but we are now appealing for the public’s help please contact Thames Valley Police on 999 or via our website please do not approach him but contact us on 999.” the Czech shoe giant built a model town for its workers who bought milk in the company supermarket they had no idea how distinctive their new place was Golf-mad Alois Vaclavik was particularly taken with the garden while his wife Jarmila made Czech cakes in the kitchen Alois Vaclavik was an employee of the Czech shoe giant Bata and the house was part of the estate – actually more of a town – that the company built in East Tilbury in the 1930s His cuboid-shaped home and the other houses around it still feel both self-contained and spacious cosy and civilising – a bridge between the toil of the worker and the intellectual idealism of the age in which they were built ‘I had a group of 20 architects visit’ … May Rippingale in front of her house on the Bata estate in East Tilbury Photograph: Martin Godwin/For the GuardianMay Rippingale is sitting in the shaded part of the garden where she used to play as a young girl She bought the family home in the 1980s when the estate was put up for sale They went round the house and told me what was wrong with it That the bannister was dangerous for children and the balcony wouldn’t be allowed.” Shoe production via conveyor belt at the Bata factory.As an entrepreneur, Tomáš Baťa mimicked Henry Ford’s conveyor-belt system in his shoe factories but his footwear Fordism was allied with a utopian vision of community living Though Baťa died in a plane crash in Switzerland just months after buying the land in Essex he had left explicit instructions as to how the project should unfold Scooters and motorbikes lined up outside the espresso bar which opened in 1963 complete with a coffee machine and jukebox These days, the purpose-built cinema is used as a village hall, while the hotel ballroom, where Tom Jones once played, has been transformed into the post office, its original parquet floor now wearing down to the bitumen. East Tilbury library, tucked away round the back of the old hotel on the edge of the largely intact estate, doubles as the Bata Heritage Centre this series of architectural tours and talks aims to shine a light on the little-celebrated story of Essex modernism to Crittall Windows’ model village in Silver End Rippingale is opening up her house during the weekend East Tilbury, like all Bata towns, followed the blueprint of the industrial garden city of Zlín, a fully realised 45,000-strong worker town complete with a 16-storey-high HQ by the time the second world war started. It was designed by a pupil of Le Corbusier “Under this rational mechanism,” said Le Corbusier on a visit to Zlín “I perceived a much more valued and effective factor – the human heart.” The same sentiment echoes around accounts of East Tilbury in its heyday you could get a job anywhereMick Pinion grew up on the Bata estate His father already worked at the factory when he became an apprentice engineer straight out of school in 1966 “You were dropped in at the deep end – you had to learn on the job,” says Pinion you could get a job anywhere.” The Essex factory employed 3,000 people at its peak in the 1960s and 70s as well as immigrants from all over the world Some elements of the Bata way might seem intrusive by today’s standards “People knew if their garden was overgrown they would be pulled into the office and asked politely to sort it out,” says former employee Graham Sutcliffe “It made them respect the town a bit more.” Keep it tidy – or else … factory workers would be told off at work if their gardens were overgrown Photograph: Martin Godwin/The GuardianDespite Baťa’s original vision his Essex outpost only reached a third of its planned size after Bata was nationalised by the communists in the wake of the second world war there were only 200 employees left in East Tilbury moving most of its manufacturing to Malaysia Rippingale and her siblings resisted following their parents into the footwear business She became a secretary and moved to London Once teeming with workers who clocked in to music piped out of speakers at the company gates each morning the listed factory buildings are now owned by a storage company and the estate is looking a little rundown Music at the company gates … clocking-off time at the Bata factory in the 1960s. Photograph: Bata Trust/Radical EssexDespite this, East Tilbury has generated a steady and growing interest among architects. The Bauhaus foundation has paid a visit and the last piece of Bata Trust land was sold recently to a developer which has built a portion of new housing faithful to the original modernist designs The whole Bata estate is a conservation area and there is talk of the houses being listed in line with the factory buildings residents are trying to maintain a semblance of the old Bata standards On a patch of grassland outside the old hotel locals have installed two rosebeds and various plants (though someone keeps nicking the conifers) Volunteers have been to speak to schoolchildren about the town’s heritage but they are worried history is being forgotten Other more experimental communities thrived on the marshes and fields during the 19th and 20th centuries: one of the first naturist colonies in the UK was a Tolstoyan community a few miles away in Wickford Artist Sam Williams grew up in Wickford. His video work Until they feel – ahead of them – a barrier will be exhibited at Tilbury Cruise Terminal during Estuary festival, a fortnight-long event put on by the Southend arts organisation Metal which realised a decade ago that south Essex was lacking the kind of cultural infrastructure you might find in other British regions Williams filmed his work in marshland locations between Canvey Island and Tilbury docks, an area pockmarked by industrial ghosts and huge new logistics operations such as the DP World London Gateway megaport that dwarfs the older port in Tilbury “The area around the new port looks like an Essex version of the Grand Canyon,” he says these huge man-made piles of churned-up earth.” But it’s hard to imagine Jeff Bezos engineering an Amazontown round here any time soon Firefighters stopped a large field fire in East Tilbury from spreading to Coalhouse Fort Crews were called to land off Princess Margaret Road at 10.54am to reports of a large field fire The fire damaged eight hectares of land but was put out thanks to the hard work and efforts of the team at 2.43pm Group Manager Marc Diggory said: “The fire started in the nature reserve next to the sea wall and was rapidly spreading Police worked with us to evacuate 20 homes St Catherine’s Church and the car park as a precaution We had our resources in place quickly which meant we could contain it and stop it from spreading further.  “The firefighters worked so hard and were supported by the park rangers and local farmers who helped create fire breaks and tracks for us to access the fire Police and ambulance were on scene with police co-ordinating the evacuation Crews will remain on site this evening to monitor hotspots ESSEX Police would like to speak to Jake Pittaway He also goes by the name Jake Michael O’Sullivan If you see Pittaway or have information on his whereabouts You can also submit information anonymously to Crimestoppers by calling 0800 555 111 or by visiting crimestoppers-uk.org GOBIONS Park in East Tilbury has received a much needed facelift during the Easter holidays thanks to the generosity of S Walsh & Sons Supporting local community efforts by the Friends of Gobions Park Walsh’s have completely refreshed the bark surfaces within the children’s playground repainted goalposts and spruced up the zip line The local community celebrated these improvements at an Easter Sunday Funday event which raised over £600 towards future improvements at Gobions Park The Friends of Gobions Park was set up last year by local people looking to reverse the fortunes of the Park The Group works to ensure the Park’s vitality as a treasured space within East Tilbury encouraging positive use and appreciation by our community Further information on the Friends of Gobions Park can be found via the website: www.friendsofgobionspark.org Chair of the Friends said “We are delighted that S Walsh & Sons are supporting our park financially and practically Their efforts represent a huge step forward for Gobions Park We wish to thank Walsh’s for their incredible generosity and hope that our community appreciates the improvements When they heard about our Easter fun day they really pulled out all the stops to get it done in time.” Operations Manager at S Walsh & Sons said “We feel strongly about our responsibilities as a local business in East Tilbury so when the Friends of Gobions Park approached us with their plan for the Park We are always interested in supporting local initiatives and encourage residents to speak to us where we can help Councillor Sue Sammons said: “These improvements show what happens when the community comes together in a positive way I want to thank both the Friends of Gobions Park and S Walsh & Sons for their hard work in making Gobions Park a better place for our children.” First new homes in East Tilbury for housing association is delighted to announce that it is to develop over 60 homes in the town of East Tilbury for the first time The properties on the Bata Fields development – which are to be built opposite the former Bata Shoe factory following its closure in 2005 – will see CHP acquire and deliver 63 homes Turnstone Close and Tilbury Close are all for affordable rent Known for being ‘the town that shoes built’ the Bata Shoe Company was the main business in the town of East Tilbury for over 70 years hence the development’s name of Bata Fields It is the first time that the company has developed in East Tilbury despite providing almost 200 homes throughout the Thurrock district since 2002 all of the properties will be advertised through Thurrock Council Working with Persimmon Homes and employer’s agent the Bata Fields development is due to be completed by October 2017 The properties – all of which offer allocated parking and large back gardens – have kitchen diners with separate living rooms while the four-bedroom homes have utility rooms and an en-suite bathroom in the master bedroom The Bata Fields development is ideal for commuters and families as the A13 is located nearby along with a train station offering transport links to London and Southend-on-Sea The company along with its private sales subsidiary throughout Essex in 2017 and is offering a range of tenures – from affordable rent to outright private sale – to suit local peoples’ needs “Despite the company developing a number of new properties throughout the Thurrock district over the years this is the first time we have delivered much needed new homes in East Tilbury,” said Carl Hockey “At CHP we pride ourselves on providing high-quality homes which is why we are delighted to be able to offer these properties to local people later this year.”