Plans for Shoebury Common Seawall to finally go on show

6:40pm Friday 22nd March 2013 in Echo News By David Trayner

Anti-seawall campaigners Peter Grubb and Ray Bailey near Uncle Tom's Cabin, Shoebury Common Road, Shoebury, demonstrating the height of the proposed embankment Anti-seawall campaigners Peter Grubb and Ray Bailey near Uncle Tom's Cabin, Shoebury Common Road, Shoebury, demonstrating the height of the proposed embankment

CONTROVERSIAL plans for a new £46million seawall on Shoebury Common will finally be unveiled to the public at an exhibition next month.

Southend Council’s plans for the embankment will go on show at Thorpedene Library in Delaware Road, Sboebury, from April 15 to May 12 and a public meeting will be held at Shoebury High School on April 22.

Tony Cox, cabinet member for public protection and a councillor for Shoebury, said: “We have said all along that the plans are subject to a full public consultation and we will have that the exhibition and public meeting.

“They will put to bed some of the myths surrounding the scheme and set out the reasons why there is a need for flood defences.”

Opponents who question the need for the scheme and its multi-million pound price tag have been calling for the plans to be made public since a botched consultation last summer.

The council displayed plans at Thorpe Bay Yacht Club in June but the room was too small for concerned residents cramming in to see them.

A projector broke when officers attempted to give a presentation on the scheme to Shoebury Residents’ Association the following month.

Comments(19)

saddo99 says...
7:29pm Fri 22 Mar 13

Get down to the library quick before the ba$tard$ at SBC close it! No we don't want a silly sea-wall and yes we do want our library.

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Nebs says...
7:39pm Fri 22 Mar 13

Our council is all-powerful. Rather than raise the height of the sea wall, could they not just lower the height of the sea.

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Carnabackable says...
9:18pm Fri 22 Mar 13

Probably resemble Canvey Island when your at sea, as what would be the point, of anything lower? at the end of the day, with rising sea levels, better to have a high sea wall, than seaweed floating in your back garden....

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Sean4u says...
10:11pm Fri 22 Mar 13

I'm glad they drew that diagram - I wouldn't have had a clue what the issue was without it.

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Seasider90 says...
10:12pm Fri 22 Mar 13

The residents will be moaning when their houses are flooded. Why not build a massive marina as well. It would bring jobs, investment and is well overdue. So what if it spoils the view of a few tofts on the seafront. Main thing is marina bring in money something Southend badly needs. Its already started to look like a third world ghetto in some parts of the town.

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Mr. Miles says...
10:56pm Fri 22 Mar 13

King Canute for Mayor!

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Mike Smith says...
11:09pm Fri 22 Mar 13

The old method of erecting walls to hold back the sea is not a cost-effective approach to managing sea defences. As is happening at other places on the east coast, the natural way to improve our relationship with the sea is to create salt marshes, and to use these natural barriers to provide habitat for wild life. The cost, and belief, that pouring thousands of tons of concrete along the beach will somehow prevent the sea encroaching on the land, this is as misguided as King Canute commanding the sea to retreat.

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Blackblood says...
8:14am Sat 23 Mar 13

Seasider90 wrote:
The residents will be moaning when their houses are flooded. Why not build a massive marina as well. It would bring jobs, investment and is well overdue. So what if it spoils the view of a few tofts on the seafront. Main thing is marina bring in money something Southend badly needs. Its already started to look like a third world ghetto in some parts of the town.
Nuclear power plants bring employment and money too. Let's build one in Southend.

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Keptquiettillnow says...
10:37am Sat 23 Mar 13

Blackblood wrote:
Seasider90 wrote:
The residents will be moaning when their houses are flooded. Why not build a massive marina as well. It would bring jobs, investment and is well overdue. So what if it spoils the view of a few tofts on the seafront. Main thing is marina bring in money something Southend badly needs. Its already started to look like a third world ghetto in some parts of the town.
Nuclear power plants bring employment and money too. Let's build one in Southend.
Why not build it on the B&Q site in the town, I mean thats a bit of an eyesore.

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maureen says...
11:57am Sat 23 Mar 13

i have said it before what sos council wants is what sos council gets never mind all the protests, campaigns and the local people they WLL have what THEY want

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ORACUS says...
12:41pm Sat 23 Mar 13

Big houses many with permanent swimming pools in the back garden.
It must just be a coincidence.

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hullman says...
1:45pm Sat 23 Mar 13

46 million pounds !!!!!!!!!! what are they building it with? hashish?|

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TB townie says...
3:33pm Sat 23 Mar 13

Is it me or is this new wall purely for the benefit of the developer who wants to build new houses on Gunners Park which is a flood plane.

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heartbeat says...
5:12pm Sat 23 Mar 13

Seasider90 wrote:
The residents will be moaning when their houses are flooded. Why not build a massive marina as well. It would bring jobs, investment and is well overdue. So what if it spoils the view of a few tofts on the seafront. Main thing is marina bring in money something Southend badly needs. Its already started to look like a third world ghetto in some parts of the town.
Isn't it a bit judgemental to label everyone who lives on the seafront near the site a "toff"? If people earn a decent living, save hard, inherit money or even have the good fortune to excel at bingo should they only ever aspire to live in studio flats or small terraced houses with a grotty view for fear of being called a "toff"?

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Howard Chase says...
8:27pm Sat 23 Mar 13

Mr. Miles wrote:
King Canute for Mayor!
who you calling a canute?

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Mike Smith says...
1:29am Sun 24 Mar 13

Howard Chase wrote:
Mr. Miles wrote:
King Canute for Mayor!
who you calling a canute?
Some people still have the mindset of Canute. We have learned nothing in 1000 years!

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ORACUS says...
4:25am Sun 24 Mar 13

Mike Smith wrote:
Howard Chase wrote:
Mr. Miles wrote:
King Canute for Mayor!
who you calling a canute?
Some people still have the mindset of Canute. We have learned nothing in 1000 years!
You've got King Canute backwards

http://www.bosham.or
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southendfanman says...
7:10am Mon 25 Mar 13

£46,000,000 that is outrageous. I bet it is already a done and dusted deal given to a tory cronie. Use concrete canvas it will save a fortune. http://youtu.be/R_fp
Wupk0v4

http://www.bbc.co.uk
/news/technology-134
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http://youtu.be/CRF9
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http://youtu.be/B5j-
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maureen says...
6:56pm Mon 25 Mar 13

TB townie wrote:
Is it me or is this new wall purely for the benefit of the developer who wants to build new houses on Gunners Park which is a flood plane.
but of course but shush some people do not know yet

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