I FEEL the need to write regarding the Howard Tenens controversy.

The moving of the entrance a couple of hundred metres to the west will just cause queues around the roundabout and back up the Aveley by-pass, which already needs re-surfacing again due to subsidence caused by the constant stream of HGVs.

The solution becomes obvious when you look at the site on Google Earth.

Tenens has extended the site to such an extent that the south west corner now stands within 150 metres of the highways depot on the slip road from junction 30/31 of the M25. The M25 is in the process of being widened, and the motorway network exists to handle this type of traffic, so the solution seems obvious.

I am sure this would suit the residents, Tenens, their tenants and the HGV drivers.

I, along with other residents, are fed up with the HGVs – I believe there are up to 600 lorry movements per day and the associated noise, air and light pollution that they cause, not to mention the use of Hangman’s Wood as a toilet by drivers in the lay-by on Stifford Road.

Although Tenens has had its proposals refused this time, it is to appeal until it is successful no doubt.

I would urge local residents to pester the Highways Agency until they start to use joined up thinking. – BRIAN KILLETT, Stifford Road, South Ockendon.