The campaign against the controversial F5 dual carriageway scheme, proposed for the A127/A1159 Priory Crescent, took a dramatic new turn today with an extensive underground tunnel system being announced at the ‘Camp Bling’ protest site in Southend on Sea, Essex, in advance of a decision to be made on the road this Friday.

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Hello Tim

If you are brave enough, come to the site and have a chat with the residents who will tell you what professional skills they have and what jobs they have. Amongst them you would find a welder, a design engineer, a carpenter and a business continuity expert. Or is this not good enough for your definition of a "proper job" - what do you do, and how are you benefitting society?

Pylon

Hi blingers, have just posted a request to indymedia that the call for volunteers that recently appeared be upgraded to a 'promoted' article. It would be good if we could start our own South East Essex (or better still Southend) Indymedai Kollective, Cheers Graham

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I just found out about Camp Bling earlier today and want to wish you all the best in fighting off the road plans. There should be more people like you in the world willing to fight for your beliefs.:)

Hi Sharon

Your support is very welcome. I hope the widespread news of Camp Bling will help raise the overall consciousness of the public - progress should not be destructive - destruction is regression, and as a species we are currently regressing, despite the political polemic that growth is necessary.

We can live as part of the natural ecosystem or destroy it, to our cost - it's a simple choice.

Pylon

Hello to all at Camp Bling from the Westcliff Land Cultivation Society, better known as Springfield Drive Allotments. I'm just writing this to let you all know that at our last committee meeting it was agreed that we would formally support Camp Bling in any way that was deemed practical or appropriate, after all its the least we could do after the support Shawn gave us back in the summer when our plots were threatened by the Councils plans to merge Prittlewell and Thorpe Bay schools. People Power defeated that ill concieved scheme, we can win this one too! For now I'm putting a banner on our website, but hopefully we can offer more practical support later!

Was just interested in knowing how you excavated the tunnels without damaging any archaeological remains - did you undertake any preliminary investigations, or did you just take pot luck? Not wishing to pour any scorn on you at all, but it does seem rather hypocritical to me, and possibly to others, that you use archaeological remains as a reason for protest, yet appear to be happy to dig into the ground risking potential buried remains.

The tunnels were purposefully dug in locations and in a manner so as to avoid any potential damage to artifacts - given the nature of the digging process extreme care is needed which prevents any use of mechanical tools. This being totally unlike the activity that Southend Council have planned for the site.

Thanks for asking.

Pylon

As a driver who has to daily drive out of Southend and meet the "jam" by Priory park,I agree about the environment but what about all traffic fumes generated because of the "hold ups".Common sense says far better to let traffic flow rather than this situation continue.Yes we would lose trees which is regrettable but in the long term would be preferable to this traffic problem with the "fumes" and waste of fuel whilst at a standstill.It will go ahead and the longer you delay it the more it will cost,so please go away because you are scarring the countryside with all of your wooden huts and debris.You have made your point - well done - now lets have some progress!!
Thank you.

Hi Peter,

One of the things that came out of the public consultation is that the hold-up isn't the "lack" of a dual carriageway; it's getting out onto the roundabout at Cuckoo Corner. This means that me most likely effect of the dual carriage way is two lanes of stationary traffic instead of one, and the fume becoming more concentrated at the park end. We will therefore lose trees in the park, and would have lost the remains, and spent several million pounds, with no overall benefit to traffic flow.

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