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An update on our Development Consent Order

The Lower Thames Crossing is a Nationally Significant Infrastructure Project (NSIP), which are large, complex infrastructure projects that benefit the entire country.

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Search for partner to build Britain’s longest road tunnel, begins

Today we are inviting tenders to build the longest road tunnel in Britain that sits at the heart of the proposed Lower Thames Crossing, the most ambitious roads project for a generation.

Community update - Autumn 2020

Design refinement consultation now closed

August 2020

Launch of the Thames Estuary

July 2020

Design refinement consultation - launch

July 2020

Design refinement consultation announced

July 2020

News archive

31 March - Covid-19: Site works on the Lower Thames Crossing

23 March - Supplementary consultation update

19 March - Supplementary consultation - extended

16 March - Supplementary consultation events - update

3 February - Upcoming Supply Chain School events

23 January - Supplementary consultation now open

17 September - Out and about: August 2019

22 July - Project update – 2018 consultation and next steps for the Lower Thames Crossing

1 July - Ground investigations – the next step in designing Lower Thames Crossing

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Design refinement consultation webinar recording (changes in Kent) 30th July 2020

Design refinement consultation webinar recording (changes in Thurrock and Essex) 29th July 2020

Design refinement consultation webinar recording (changes in Thurrock and Essex) 21st July 2020

Design refinement consultation webinar recording (changes in Kent) 20th July 2020

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