Lower Thames Crossing Statutory Consultation 2018

The Statutory Consultation for the proposed Lower Thames Crossing ran for 10 weeks from Weds 10th October to Thurs 20th December 2018.

All the official info/documents that Highways England released for the consultation can be found by scrolling towards the bottom of this page on their website – https://highwaysengland.citizenspace.com/ltc/consultation/. We have also listed links to the main documents, including maps, further down this page.

For ease of access to posts we made relating to the consultation on our website please see the following:

LTC Statutory Consultation – www.thamescrossingactiongroup.com/statutory-consultation/
Covering the announcement of the Statutory Consultation

LTC Statutory Consultation Events – www.thamescrossingactiongroup.com/highways-england-statutory-consultation-public-information-events/
Details of all the Highways England info, mobile, and awareness events for the LTC Statutory Consultation

Initial reactions to HE’s latest fly through video – www.thamescrossingactiongroup.com/initial-reactions-to-hes-latest-fly-through-video/
Our initial reactions to the Highways England fly through video of the LTC route that was released for the consultation

LTC bottlenecks – www.thamescrossingactiongroup.com/ltc-bottlenecks/
Info about bottlenecks on or that would be caused by LTC

LTC and Benny the Beluga – www.thamescrossingactiongroup.com/benny-the-beluga/
Includes info about the rest/service area, LTC/M25/A127 junctions, traffic modelling, weather impacts, Benny the Beluga whale

Another LTC consultation update – www.thamescrossingactiongroup.com/another-ltc-consultation-update/
Covering private funding being abolished, public funding, emergency services concerns, no bicycles to be allowed through LTC, LTC charges, questions over Dartford Tunnel, Rest/Service area, pollution, length of consultation questioned, Thurrock Council motion passed supporting judicial review/legal action options

Yet another LTC consultation update – www.thamescrossingactiongroup.com/yet-another-ltc-consultation-update/
Queries over Stratera gas pipe, budget and funding, value for money, local sourcing for construction, LTC capacity, construction plans, M25 traffic issues, more on Dartford Tunnel, lack of crossing access at M25/A127 junction for cyclists/pedestrians,/equestrians

Some A13/LTC updates – www.thamescrossingactiongroup.com/some-a13-ltc-updates/
Videos and info about some of the A13 Stanford junction detour problems in relation to A128, A1089, LTC traffic. Issues of how traffic will migrate between two crossings when there’s an incident at either. Examples of road and incident issues. A13 junction issues.

LTC Benefits according to Highways England – www.thamescrossingactiongroup.com/lower-thames-crossing-benefits-according-to-highways-england/
Our responses to the so called ‘benefits’ that HE suggest LTC would provide.

Yet more LTC updates – www.thamescrossingactiongroup.com/yet-more-ltc-updates/
Electric vehicle usage concerns, Sat Nav tracking, spoil usage in Kent, spoil contamination concerns, doormouse boxes query, relocation of electricity pylons, mitigation trees, potholes, roadside rubbish and parking concerns, landuse for utilities, offline road impacts/detours, plantroom/control building, impacts on Coalhouse and Tilbury Forts, Love Lane (East Tilbury), construction carbon release, A1089 magic portal, HE property team issues, HE info team issues, service station location possibilities, noise sensitivity areas, charges for using LTC, agricultural land concerns.

LTC Consultation – Your response – www.thamescrossingactiongroup.com/ltc-consultation-your-response/
A step by step on issues you may wish to consider when completing your statutory consultation response

Thames Crossing Action Group official response to Statutory Consultation – www.thamescrossingactiongroup.com/thames-crossing-action-group-response-to-ltc-consultation/
All 45 pages of our official Thames Crossing Action Group response to the LTC Statutory Consultation

Some other responses to LTC Statutory Consultation – www.thamescrossingactiongroup.com/some-other-responses-to-ltc-statutory-consultation/
Read some of the responses that other authorities and organisations etc submitted

2019 Summer LTC Update from Highways England – www.thamescrossingactiongroup.com/summer-2019-lower-thames-crossing-project-update/
A summary of the responses to the Statutory Consultation and an executive summary of the issues raised during the Statutory Consultation