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A COUNCIL has joined dozens of residents in raising “serious concerns” about a bid to more than double the size of a chemical storage site. Castle Point Council fears that an application by storage company Oikos to expand its site on Haven Road, Canvey could lead to more flood risks and traffic. The council sent responses to Oikos’s consultation which ran throughout spring over the plan to expand the liquid storage facilities from 290,000 m3 to 600,000 m3. The plans also involve new giant tanks on the south side of the estate. Tory councillor for Canvey West, Jay Blissett, said: “We don’t have the road infrastructure to support this application, and the site is too close to people’s homes. If there is a need to improve the resilience of the local fuel network in the South East, then they should expand the Isle of Grain or upgrade the Navigator or Thames oil ports. They are a lot further away from residential populations than Oikos.