Thurrock Council

The developer says 50% of the new properties will be affordable.

The government is set to extend its intervention at the Essex authority until April 2028.

Councillors are applauded as they defy a report that would have endangered an old oak.

Thurrock Council invested hundreds of millions of pounds in Rockfire Capital between 2016 and 2020.

It is a "responsibility I take extremely seriously", she says.

The blueprints focus on a former power station on the banks of the Thames estuary in Essex.

Councillors want to consider more evidence about the old oak before deciding its fate.

The council is effectively bankrupt after a series of investments.