BOY racers causing motoring misery on Canvey could be stopped in their tracks by new plans to join up two roundabouts.

County councillor Ray Howard, deputy of the Essex Highways Panel, and also a Canvey councillor, wants to join the roundabouts located some 250 feet apart on Roscommon Way.

The boy racers use the roundabout to perform their tricks, but Mr Howard hopes this new plan could finally solve the problem.

Police and Castle Point Council have repeatedly tried to crack down on the problem, issuing dispersal orders banning people from committing antisocial behaviour and installing CCTV cameras to deter the racers.

Mr Howard said: “They are now using different tactics to use the new entrance into Charfleets.

“We are looking at joining the two roundabouts together to stop them doing their manoeuvres.

“It will cost money, but all we need is some sort of barrier to join the two together.

“We feel joining them together physically by some method, be that plastic bollards or something else, it will stop them going round.

“We are doing all we can. It just seems these people have got money to burn and they’re doing great harm to their vehicles and not taking into consideration the public’s safety.

“They have no respect for the environment or for the residents who have to listen to this totally unacceptable noise.”

The latest incidents took place on Monday night.

Yesterday afternoon, Mr Howard met with police and Canvey councillor Dave Blackwell to discuss the issue as well as considering extending the CCTV cameras to the new entrance of Charfleets Industrial Estate.

More than 60 boy racers have been caught driving dangerously since the cameras were installed in September.

Eighteen have been issued with antisocial behaviour warnings and 21 motorists have been told they face prosecution.