Fresh calls to extend the Elizabeth line into Dartford have been made as Bexley Council campaign for more infrastructure in the area.

A motion was brought to Bexley Council at a meeting last week calling for more investment in infrastructure to support the immense amounts of growth in the area.

Councillors spoke at the meeting calling for the Elizabeth line, which will stop at Abbey Wood once it opens next year.

The motion won unanimous support from the council.

Leader of the opposition group, Councillor Daniel Francis, said afterwards: “The regeneration of this borough is too fundamental to be a political football.

“Tonight we've committed to making Bexley better and to work with our local communities to make sure that regeneration works with them, not in spite of them.”

Councillor Jeremy Kite, leader of Dartford Council, said it was a top priority for the council to get Crossrail to stop at Ebbsfleet.

He said: “We are very much pushing for this and have been for a while. It is important for Ebbsfleet as well as for the rest of Dartford.

“We are shooting for the moon with this and really want it to extend to Dartford and Ebbsfleet.

“It is a very real solution to the appalling traffic conditions that Dartford faces on a daily basis.

“I think it will come eventually. The government owes us a solution. We have had meetings with London boroughs and with Bexley, this is a priority for the town.”

The Elizabeth line will launch in December 2018 and stretch from Reading to Abbey Wood.

The Garden City in Ebbsfleet will feature 15,000 new homes as well as a new city centre.

Cllr Kite said: “Because of the growth we have got to link the people who will be living in our town and borough but working in London. It would make life easier.

Bexley’s Growth Strategy sets out plans for 30,000 new houses in the borough and 17,000 new jobs."

In responding to the motion, Cllr Alex Sawyer, cabinet member for traffic & transport said that the council would continue to fight for investment infrastructure in Bexley and across the north of the borough.

He said: “There should be no limit to our ambition as to what, with the right infrastructure, this borough can be – and what our residents can achieve.”