THE date engineers want to move massive equipment along village lanes to build an incinerator has been announced.

Residents living around Rivenhall could have to move cars off their street on September 23 to allow huge lorries to access the site of a controversial incinerator currently being built nearby.

Lorries transporting piling rigs approximately 35m long, 3.7m wide and 4.8m high have been given permission by Essex County Council to travel through small villages to the Rivenhall Integrated Waste Management Facility.

A planning notification has been submitted to Essex County Council to allow the first of what could be ten abnormal loads on September 23.

Other notifications will be made when engineers need those pieces of equipment to be moved on site.

The original planning application had a condition that all lorry movements had to be off the A120.

The change allows ten abnormal loads to access the site via Woodhouse Lane to the south.

This would mean lorries driving off the A120 near McDonald’s, and going through Tye Green and Silver End, before turning into Woodhouse Lane.

Accessing the site from the north requires travelling over two bailey-style bridges over the River Blackwater.