{"id":518141,"date":"2026-04-07T19:16:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T19:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/518141\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T19:16:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T19:16:08","slug":"persistent-dust-pollution-hotline-launched-for-tilbury-residents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/518141\/","title":{"rendered":"Persistent dust pollution hotline launched for Tilbury residents"},"content":{"rendered":"

Michael Dineen, the assistant director for community protection and enforcement services at the council, described the problem as a priority in a place overview and scrutiny committee meeting, external<\/a> on Thursday, 26 March.<\/p>\n

“The issue with nuisance dust has been longstanding,” he said.<\/p>\n

“We’ve brought everyone around the table to try to find some solutions, and establishing a single point of contact for residents is an important step.” <\/p>\n

Meetings have already taken place between the council and the Environment Agency, Port Authority, Port Health and public health officials. <\/p>\n

From this, the Environment Agency has committed to stationing a permanent staff member at Tilbury Port, whereas the Port Health Authority will supply three part-time officers to monitor issues. <\/p>\n

The Local Democracy Reporting Service<\/a> said the agencies will meet quarterly to track progress. <\/p>\n

Previously, residents have blamed the town’s port<\/a> for the ongoing problem with dust covering their homes and cars, and the Port of Tilbury said in October<\/a> that it “takes its responsibilities as a business and neighbour seriously”.<\/p>\n

“We adhere to all statutory environmental requirements and, in Tilbury2 specifically, we have all required dust suppression systems in place across the site.”<\/p>\n

Discussions took place last year to determine whether a new dust analysis should be commissioned following complaints that port facility Tilbury2 had increased dust levels.<\/p>\n

Dineen said: “If regulations aren’t working or aren’t being adhered to, my officers will be speaking with the Environment Agency. We’ll be there to make sure they act for our residents.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Michael Dineen, the assistant director for community protection and enforcement services at the council, described the problem as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":518142,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-518141","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-environment","9":"tag-science","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=518141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/518142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=518141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}