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END OF THE ROAD

The Camp Bling/Save Priory Park campaign in Essex have won! After a decade-long campaign, and a protest camp at the site since 2005, the £25 million Priory Crescent road widening scheme in Southend-on-Sea has been cancelled. Camp Bling – named after the Saxon king buried in the woodland threatened by the roadworks – will ‘decommission’ itself during the summer, aiming to restore the site back to how they found it. 

Despite the best efforts of Southend Tory council leader Nigel Holdcroft, who pursued the road project in the face of almost unanimous local opposition, this week the government announced were only going to fund the £5 million Cuckoo Corner roundabout, leaving the full scheme dead in the water.

The camp is still there now, and welcomes visitors. Help will be needed during the summer to tat down and restore the site. BLINGTASTIC!

* Site mob 07866 967601, www.campbling.org

Keywords: camp bling, direct action, essex, priory crescent, protest camp, southend


 

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