Villagers in Orsett Heath are concerned at the impact of proposed new road plan
Residents living in a village beside the path of a proposed new Lower Thames Crossing have called on the government to finally make a decision.
She said: "We came from Norfolk to live near our children and we said this is a little bit of Norfolk here, it’s all countryside, it’s all pleasant and now it could all change. George Sykes-Waller, 79, and Susan Knowles, 65, use the Orsett Heath allotments despite living elsewhere in the borough. It would arrive in Essex east of Tilbury and loop round marshland and villages like Orsett Heath before connecting to major roads.
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