Community update, February 2024

Welcome to the latest edition of our community video newsletter – a short film designed to keep you up to speed with the latest project news and progress.

This edition is presented by Kat Ferguson, who is our Supply Chain Development Director on the Lower Thames Crossing. Kat provides an update on:

• Our community drop-in events - talk to our team
• Our planning application - detailed examination complete
• Our Delivery Partners - Bouygues Murphy Joint Venture awarded the tunnel and approaches contract
• Green light for new community facilities at Hole Farm community woodland - site to become home to around 150,000 new trees
• How we're investing in communities - continuing to deliver an ambitious programme of investments in local communities
• Dartford Crossing's 60^th Birthday - over one billion journeys made since it opened in 1963

You can watch the full film above or click on a chapter below to jump to one of the highlights.

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Join us at a community drop-in event

We're holding a series of events at community halls and shopping centres in February and March, giving you the chance to chat with our team.
We will be providing information on the progress we made in 2023 and our plans for 2024.

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Find out more about our community events and the full list of locations.

Our planning application

At the end of December, the six-month examination of our plans ended.

The Examining Authority now has three months to submit a recommendation report to the Secretary of State for Transport. A final decision is expected in June.

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Read more about this important milestone.

An update on our delivery partners

Now that Bouygues Murphy Joint Venture have been awarded the tunnel and approaches contract, which includes the UKs longest road tunnels, this marks the completion of the Lower Thames Crossing delivery team.

Balfour Beatty and Skanska were awarded the roads contracts last year, for roads North and South of the River Thames.

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Green light for new community facilities at Hole Farm community woodland

Forestry England announced that planning permission has been given the green light for new community facilities at Hole Farm community woodland in Brentwood, Essex.

The 100-hectare site is being developed as part of the Lower Thames Crossing project and will become home to around 150,000 new trees.

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Find out more about Hole Farm.

How we're investing in communities

We continue to deliver an ambitious programme of wider investment in local communities.

Projects we’ve invested in so far across Kent and Essex include Shorne Woods Country Park, Vineyards Farm, Warley Place, Dagnam Park and Chafford Gorges Nature Discovery Park.

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Find out more about how we are investing in communities.

Dartford Crossing's 60^th Birthday

The Dartford Crossing turned 60 years old in November. Designed for a different time, the only road crossing east of London was a feat of engineering that has played a vital role connecting Kent and Essex with over one billion journeys made since it opened in 1963.

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For further information contact us at info@lowerthamescrossing.co.uk or by calling 0300 123 5000. You can also get the latest updates on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and our YouTube channel.