Hello to all from Camp Bling. Things going very well down at the site, defences still going in and we're waiting for the funding announcement to build the road.

More construction, meetings, events and training all planned, so get in touch soon, or please visit us ASAP for more details.

Still in need of people, building materials and donations (food and financial) too.

On Tuesday 23rd May we'll be celebrating eight months of Bling - amazin!!!

Well done to all.

Squersh x

is jaq still at the camp site ? i hope you can still find room when i rt very soon ;)

I see the echo have now changed their tune. peviously broadly supportive of camp Bling, the editorial in yesterdays Echo says that 'we' can no longer afford to be 'indulgent' of the camp, and that the road must go ahead or else 'mob rule' will win the day. Who bought them out I wonder??? Better a 'mob' consisting of the majority of the population of the town suceed in saving the park and stop this unecessary road building scheme than a bunch of bueracrats with vested interests get their own way. Anna Waite got kicked out by the electorate, which the Echo admits is at least 'partly to do with the controversial road building scheme', what more demonstration of the 'will of the people' do they need???

The Editors comment in the Southend Evening Echo on Monday 15th May does a disservice to each and every resident of our town and beyond, who has opposed the controversial Priory Crescent road widening, ever since the idea was first put forward.

The article is written in very emotive and colourful language, clearly with the intention of turning away support from those of us who have lived at the Camp Bling protest site, over the past eight months, and throughout the winter period.

During the course of the campaign, Parklife and Camp Bling have often been portrayed as irrelevant, or in this case read ‘harmless and quite colourful eccentrics.’ Now that the go ahead could be halted by the impracticalities of clearing our protest site, the tone has changed and we must stand for ‘mob rule.’

May I remind the Editor and also Southend Borough Council that over 20,000 signatures were collected in opposition to the scheme by the end of the official public consultation period, with just 16 (sixteen) letters of approval forthcoming from local people at the time.

As recently as last Saturday Parklife met with the town’s shoppers to collect letters of opposition. Even after five years of petitioning, over three hundred people shared their concerns with us in a few hours. I personally met two in favour of the widening that same afternoon.

So the rule of our ‘mob’ is simple - to stop the desecration of the most significant archaeological burial site found in living memory, destruction of 111 trees, concreting of 3000m2 of public open space, and equally to represent everyone who has been ignored by and excluded from the ‘exhaustive and completely democratic process.’

If the scheme is cancelled based upon the public opposition and information highlighted above, we will clear and leave the burial as stated from the outset on Friday 23rd September, when the camp was begun.

This is about people power-for the people of Southend, and this time we

won’t be ignored.

Shaun Qureshi
Campaigner-Parklife
Camp Bling
1 King’s Burial
Priory Crescent
Southend

Did you send this as a letter to the Echo as well?

Our Policy
The ECHO, first published in 1969, is independent of political parties, private interests and government.
Our policy is to provide our readers with a news and information service that is fair, accurate, and balanced.

Taken from the Echo newspaper Comment column.


Yeah right!!!!

Hi Graham,

Yes mate, it's in today, along with a few others apparently.

Regards,

squersh

Nice one, well done Sean!

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