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- Live text updates from tonight's planning committee meeting
- Plans for a new Morrisons supermarket on the site of the Gala bingo hall, with petrol station and neighbouring restaurant 'complex' get the go-ahead
- Plans for 50 new homes on the Thames Industrial Estate in East Tilbury also given the green light.
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