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Councillors challenge weight restriction removal

8:30am Sunday 27th November 2011 in News

THREE councillors have challenged a council decision to lift weight restrictions on a busy Chafford Hundred road.

Garry Hague, Tunde Ojetola and Simon Wootton are requesting Thurrock Council cabinet members to reconsider lifting the 7.5 tonne weight limit on Devonshire Road.

The decision to lift the restrictions was approved by leading councillors during a cabinet meeting at the beginning of November.

Mr Hague said a number of residents have serious concerns over the potential safety and environmental impacts if the decision to lift the restriction is put in force.

Mr Ojetola said: “This is not a happy state of affairs and we cannot let this decision stand without putting up a fight.

“We have done our best to give residents the facts and ensure we make their views known, but we have not been provided with up-to-date reports by the Labour administration and have been unable to consult properly with the people we represent.”

They are calling for an in-depth consultation to allow time for councillors to discuss the proposals with affected residents, businesses and the wider community.

In a statement to council officials they have asked for: “A fair, sensible and properly costed decision that is made following proper input from local residents and with all relevant factors taken into account.”

Mr Wootton added: “This decision is wrong on many levels.

“Lack of public consultation and appropriate scrutiny, lack of a properly costed proposal in time when budgets are under severe pressures.

“I hope we can use this call-in process to get them to reconsider.”

Comments(15)

rocket1 says...
9:51am Sun 27 Nov 11

three wicked men.

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rocket1 says...
9:54am Sun 27 Nov 11

http://youtu.be/179k
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Mattster says...
11:02am Sun 27 Nov 11

Yeah, reconsider removing the politically imposed weight limit on the relief road BUILT to remove HGV traffic from London Road.

There are few or NO pedestrians on Devonshire Road, there are a handful of houses that are a little bit close to the road but te vast majority of Devonshire has nothing either side other than chalk cliffs or embankments.

Limit gone, now remove the signs!

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Mattster says...
11:03am Sun 27 Nov 11

One more point, Devonshire Road is by no definition a busy road.

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Mattster says...
11:05am Sun 27 Nov 11

A costed proposal? What drugs is Simon Wooton on?

How much does it cost for a workman to remove 4 signs?!!!

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rocket1 says...
11:18am Sun 27 Nov 11

they can re-cycle the signs,put them on london rd instead.

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Thurrockbob says...
7:55am Mon 28 Nov 11

There aren't many residents, so what is the problem? .... The problem lies in London Road where there should be a restriction.
Hague, Ojetola and Wootton should be renamed, Curly, Larry and Mo!

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Bernard 87 says...
9:18am Mon 28 Nov 11

Clearly something needs to be done to get so many lorries off London Road which is far busier than Devonshire Road. The problem is that houses should never have been built near this road (albeit a small section of it) in the first place.

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rocket1 says...
5:31pm Mon 28 Nov 11

THESE PEOPLE BOUGHT THEIR HOUSES KNOWING THEY WERE NEXT TO A RELIEF ROAD AND I'M SURE THEIR HOUSES WERE A LOT CHEAPER THAN IN QUIETER AREAS OF CHAFFORD HUNDRED,ITS A BIT OF A CHEEK FOR THEM TO DEMAND THAT EVERYONE ELSE SUFFERS TO SUIT THEM.

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Dave_ says...
7:01pm Mon 28 Nov 11

Rocket 1 is spot on.
I know of people who have bought properties near to roads, rail lines, farms etc in the full knowledge of their existence and then complained about it. The stupidity some people display beggars belief. Unfortunately the "three monkeys of Chafford" (I left out wise) masquarading as councillors are displaying this level of stupidity. As councillors they should be fully aware of the rationale behind Devonshire Road and as such inform their constituents. If they don't like it, they can always move.
I think the problems lie in the actual road layout of Chafford, in that you can see that it is a complete shambles. Lots of little developments with no real interconnectivity and in effect only 3 ways in/out to the north. Why they closed off Mill Lane to the south and haven't got more roads accessing from the south is bewildering. If there were more roads accessing and passing through the housing estate then the residents would be a little more used to traffic, and not get so uppity about the removal of a restriction that should have never been imposed on a road that transits the outer rim. All properly designed housing estates have good access routes and through roads.

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improving road safety says...
7:40pm Mon 28 Nov 11

I agree with rocket1 regarding recycling the road sign to London road, it is obvious the three Chafford Hundred Conservative councillors are putting their own interest first, road safety appears to come second.

Thurrock resident.

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Bernard 87 says...
12:22pm Tue 29 Nov 11

The problem is removing the restrictions will simply move the problem from the London Road to the top end of Chafford. While those people who bought their houses near this road must have known that its soul purpose was to take traffic away from London Road, those people who live in or around London Road bought houses close to factories/industry and so lorries were bound to be going up and down the roads. As I mentioned before the Sachfield development should not have been built at all, or not on such a large scale with no links to the rest of Chafford other then using Devonshire Road. Access should have been provided using one of the roads off Drake Road which would have meant that any only back gardens would be close to this road rather than someones front door.

In an ideal world Devonshire Road would be moved over to the right to allow a small slip road to be built for the houses which do front the road which can then rejoin Devonshire Road a few metres down. However I doubt there is the money, or the space to do this anyway.

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rocket1 says...
5:43pm Tue 29 Nov 11

in the original plans for chafford hundred the sachfield rd area was meant to be light industrial units to form a buffer between the houses and the relief road.

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Bernard 87 says...
8:09pm Tue 29 Nov 11

So why were houses then built there in the first place Rocket?

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rocket1 says...
8:54pm Tue 29 Nov 11

i don;t know,perhaps a brown envelope slipped into someones back pocket,but the conflict between houses and a relief road was clearly known about and then ignored.

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