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Thurrock Council have been out across the borough conducting a range of highway repairs and emergency maintenance works to help keep drivers safe.

The council's Reactive Highways Maintenance Team carries out a wide range of repairs across the borough, including pothole repairs, footway and kerb works, street furniture repairs and emergency responses to hazards. The service also provides an out-of-hours response to ensure immediate risks can be made safe as quickly as possible.

Following a formal evaluation of the Clean and Green/Housing Caretaking pilot, the council has met with staff today to deliver feedback and discuss next steps.

Thurrock Council’s Waste Services Team took its Let’s get it sorted campaign to the Orsett Show on Saturday 5 September, helping residents find out more about recycling, cutting waste and taking pride in their local communities.

Throughout the day, the team spoke with residents and visitors about how they can reduce the amount of waste they produce, recycle more and make sure the right items go in the right bins.

There has been a lot of rumour and speculation about Langdon Hills over the last week or so and we wanted to set out the facts so everyone is clear: 

Residents across Thurrock are being encouraged to keep making their recycling efforts count as part of this year’s Recycle Week, running from today (Monday 14) to 20 September.

When people think about the council, they often think about the things we are working hard on with our civic pride initiative: roads, parks, bins and street cleaning. These services matter enormously and residents rightly expect them to be delivered well. But some of the council's most important work takes place behind the scenes, helping older people, adults with disabilities and vulnerable residents live safely, independently and with dignity.

A rogue developer has been forced to pay out £17,000 in fines and costs after he failed to comply with court orders to clear a site that had been left as an eyesore in East Tilbury.

Tom Ingleton and his company Ingleton Luxury Homes (The Lawns) Ltd appeared before Colchester Magistrates’ Court on Friday 4 September where they were found guilty of failing to comply with an order the Council had given him to clear and tidy his site.

This week, Grays received a visit from the new Mapping and Visual Imaging Scooter (MAVIS). MAVIS is an innovative surveying scooter that is equipped with a specialist 360° camera and surveying technology which allow the Council to capture detailed information about the borough’s footway network. The best feature of MAVIS is its mobility, so it also assesses the real-time accessibility of footways.

Residents in Tilbury will benefit from drainage maintenance works carried out by Thurrock Council ahead of autumn

The works have cleared 130 drains, which will help reduce the risk of surface water flooding ahead of forecast periods of heavy rainfall.