Police back ban protest in Essex
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• Police and hauliers are urging Essex County Council to reject a ban on LGVs using village roads to avoid Chelmsford. The borough council wants to bar LGIls permanently from the village of Writtle, having already imposed a temporary ban on vehicles over 7.5 tonnes while bridge strengthening work takes place. One councillor says: "Writtle has a bypass built at vast expense. It is crassly stupid to allow the lorries back."
According to Essex police, however, the alternative route is three times longer, passes seven accident blackspots and almost 5km (three miles) of private housing. A police spokesman says the ban would also be difficult to enforce: "We don't have the resources to be chasing every Transit van that passes through the village," he says.