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Habitat Protection through scrub clearance In this section National Highways’ Lower Thames Crossing project has invested £94,000 through Designated Funds with Essex Wildlife Trust to protect priority habitats across Chafford Gorges in Essex. Chafford Gorges Nature Park is a 200-acre nature reserve located in Chafford Hundred managed by Essex Wildlife Trust. It includes lakes, meadows and woodland, and also two Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Priority habitats are home to creatures such…

We’ll need a huge team to help us build the Lower Thames Crossing with the main bulk of job roles will come during construction. In this section   Our Delivery Partners are responsible for building the Lower Thames Crossing. Click the links below to view vacancies from our Delivery Partners. Roads North, Balfour Beatty Kent Roads, Skanska Tunnels and systems, Bouygues Tunnels and systems, Murphy Map showing the Delivery Partners along the Lower Thames Crossing route (click to expand) Y…

Purfleet Heritage Centre revamped with Community Funding In this section The Purfleet Heritage & Military Centre (PH&MC) in Essex, preserves local military history in an 18th-century gunpowder magazine, a building designed to safely store gunpowder in barrels.  The Grade II listed building, once part of the Purfleet Garrison, now displays British military artifacts, including items from World War I and II as well as local soldiers’ personal stories. The Centre also shares local cultural histo…

Supply chain During the building phase, we'll need thousands of people on our team from engineers and designers, to caterers and IT support Register your interest – Supply Chain Directory We're looking to engage with companies of all sizes – including small to medium size enterprises (SMEs) – who might be interested in working on the Lower Thames Crossing. Get involved – Forming a supply chain We're building on our track record of successfully delivering major projects by bringing in partne…

In this section Active travel is important to us Our customers include everybody walking, cycling and horse-riding along or across our Strategic Road Network. We encourage healthy and sustainable travel through the routes we maintain and facilities we deliver. Depending on who you are, this could mean: low carbon journeys to jobs and services leisure trips on the many National Cycle Network routes crossing our network. In this roads period (2020-2025), we've invested over £80m from our De…

By the time the new crossing opens for traffic we will have spent at least 22,000 hours volunteering in the local community In this section Our ambitious volunteering scheme will support projects near the route of the Lower Thames Crossing, both north and south of the River Thames, and reflect four themes; environment, heritage, skills and healthy active communities.  Everyone working on the Lower Thames Crossing will be encouraged to participate in a volunteering activity, with the aim of ev…

Building confidence, connection, and community through cycling in Gravesend. In this section Cyclo Park Trust, a registered charity in Gravesend, has taken a leap forward in its mission to make cycling accessible for everyone. Thanks to a grant from the Lower Thames Crossing Community Fund, its been able to create a brand new bike skills area and tunnel that benefits children, young people, and adults of all abilities. This project has turned its vision of a vibrant, inclusive community hub …

Jobs, skills and education The Lower Thames Crossing is the most ambitious road project in a generation, and we need your help to design, build and operate it Over the six years of construction, the Lower Thames Crossing will create work for thousands of people including a local workforce with almost half recruited within 20-miles and a supply chain with local business at the core. There will be a diverse range of jobs opportunities from engineers, architects and designers to caterers, sign m…

Connecting volunteers with charities and community groups that need support In this section The Havering Volunteer Centre (HVC) links people in the London Borough of Havering with local volunteer opportunities. It helps to connect volunteers with charities and community groups that need support.   HVC also assists these organisations by offering resources and training, to help them engage and manage its volunteers. It focuses on getting young people involved in volunteering, promoting social …

Unearthed during an upgrade of the A47 in Cambridgeshire, the find features in series 12 of BBC documentary, 'Digging for Britain'. Share this article Presented by Professor Alice Roberts, the BBC documentary Digging for Britain started its twelfth series on January 7 2025. Episode 1 featured a massive hand carved stone coffin, undisturbed since its burial in Roman times over 1,500 years ago. Experts from Headland Archaeology found it in a small Roman roadside cemetery, discovered during our…