Parklife

Parklife is a single issue local residents' campaign group formed in June 2001 to oppose any current or future road schemes which would have a detrimental impact upon Priory Park and its immediate surroundings.

The current proposal to dual the A127/A1159 Priory Crescent for a stretch of 870 metres (scheme F5), would require the felling of 111 trees, concreting of up to 3000m2  of public open space, and the destruction of an East Saxon king’s burial site found in 2003, identified as being ‘the most significant archaeological find in living memory’.

Southend Borough Council has amended plans and currently intends to widen half of the length of existing single carriageway, due to cost increases from an originally agreed £3.5m in December 2001, to a figure of up to £25m (not including the eviction of protest site Camp Bling, and ongoing security) as of 2006. Campaigners fear that this amounts to ‘F5 phase 1’: a cynical ploy by the local authority to neutralise local residents' concerns before going ahead with the full widening at a later date. Parklife, Priory Park Preservation Society and Camp Bling have rejected this proposal, and continue to oppose the Priory Crescent road widening – either in part or in full.

We meet on the third Wednesday of the month from 7.30pm in The Last Post (Clifftown Road end), Clifftown Road, Southend on Sea.

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