Why the secrecy over Priory road scheme? (From Echo)

Why the secrecy over Priory road scheme?

12:21pm Friday 26th February 2010

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I am a resident of Priory Crescent with up until recently an open mind to the road scheme.

However my attempt to contact Southend Council to seek reassurance regarding safety aspects of the new scheme and how they may directly affect my family and I have been ignored for the past six weeks.

Bearing in mind the works are due to start shortly, I am disappointed concerns of local people have not been addressed, despite promises that they would be.

I have contacted both the roads department at the council and councillor Anna Waite, but have received no satisfactory response.

I find it at best disappointing and at worst suspicious that in an age where information should be readily available it appears none is forthcoming when required by concerned citizens.

Terry Cockell
Priory Crescent
Southend

...Either Southend Council is extremely arrogant or it just thinks the people it serves are stupid.

Nothing it does surprises me any more, but I am angry and shocked that it has gone back on its word not to widen Priory Crescent or destroy any of the beautiful trees.

I also worry about the loss of pavements, both by the park and also along the stretch of Prince Avenue between the Bell and Cuckoo Corner where an extra lane is to be built according to the latest council plan.

Where is there room?

Even if the central reservation is massively reduced, I can’t see there being much pavement left.

I am 100 per cent behind the latest protest. How long until the council actually starts to listen?

Mitchell Easterford
Priory Crescent
Prittlewell

...Is it not time Southend Council started listening and acting upon the wishes of the electorate?

Despite giving promises to the protest group at Camp Bling, it is going ahead with its road widening scheme at Cuckoo Corner/Priory Crescent and destroying yet more trees for the sake of widening a section of road, which 160 metres further on will return to it’s current width, thereby causing further traffic chaos, unless there is some as yet unheard of plan to widen the railway bridge.

This appears to me as being wanton destruction for destruction’s sake.

Henry MacDonald
Fairmead Avenue
Westcliff

...Southend East MP James Duddridge should get his head out of the sand in supporting the widening of Priory Crescent to help the town’s economy.

Southend’s economy is already suffering. Take a walk around the town and see all the empty shops and empty units on the factory estates.

Let’s get real, the only people to benefit from this are those with connections with construction industry.

The only real answer is a town bypass, so let’s stop wasting taxpayers’ money on stupid ideas.

K Humphries
Archer Avenue
Southend

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