Traffic nightmares in Southend could be solved with plans for an outer relief road and a lower Thames crossing, it has been claimed.

Council leader Charles Latham has firmly placed old plans for the relief road back on the political agenda.

He told a special cabinet meeting discussing the impact of the Thames Gateway strategy on Wednesday: "We will get our outer relief road. I am determined of that."

Published Friday November 8, 2002

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