Camp Bling back up and awaiting chainsaws — chopping on Sunday?

27.2.2010
Impor­tant Update

6pm — so far, so good at Camp Cuck­oo; food dona­tions com­ing in but still need more peo­ple; lat­est twit­ter updates on PPPS web­site below or SKIPP face­book page.

Var­i­ous sources have now con­firmed that the Coun­cil will be felling the trees on Pri­o­ry Cres­cent dur­ing Sun­day. The affect­ed stretch of Pri­o­ry Cres­cent is going to be closed to traf­fic between mid­night and 8pm Sun­day.

There will be peo­ple climb­ing the trees to pre­vent them being felled — if you feel up to it, please vol­un­teer! We also need as many peo­ple as pos­si­ble on the ground to lend sup­port, wit­ness the Coun­cil’s, pri­vate secu­ri­ty and Police’s actions and so on.

Please come down to lend your sup­port. Peo­ple have been cam­paign­ing against this road widen­ing since 1972 and it’s all com­ing to a head tonight.

Addi­tion­al from SKIPP: Urgent notice — help need­ed NOW! Tree felling begins tonight in Pri­o­ry Cres­cent, any­one who can please come down to site, your help is des­per­ate­ly need­ed, if pos­si­ble please can­cel what ever you are doing, it is now or nev­er, pas­sive or active, you can help save the trees if we act togeth­er NOW… SKIPP Com­mit­tee Con­tact: 07799414887 — mark 07747755205 — pat­sy Please let us know if you can help.

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After years of patient occu­pa­tion and appar­ent vic­to­ry, Southend activists have had to reoc­cu­py land to pre­vent the coun­cils new road build­ing scheme. Evic­tions are expect­ed immi­nent­ly and crew are urgent­ly need­ed.

Southend Bor­ough Coun­cil has reneged on the agree­ment made last April with Bling and Park­life which result­ed in an agree­ment with the res­i­dents to vacate the site.

Local Group SKIPP has since been cam­paign­ing to pre­vent the revised plan from becom­ing a real­i­ty, last week SKIPP joined force with Park­life, and Blingers to occu­py a site in Pri­o­ry Cres­cent with a view to pre­vent­ing tree felling which is due in the next few days.

This morn­ing a source with­in the Coun­cil informed us, that tree felling and evic­tion is now immi­nent.

Sup­port is urgent­ly need­ed, the site is sit­u­at­ed in Pri­o­ry Cres­cent on land adja­cent to the Cuck­oo Cor­ner Round­about; by car head into Southend using the A127, fol­low­ing the town cen­tre signs, by train the near­est sta­tion is Prit­tlewell on the Liv­er­pool Street Line.

(for back­ground please refer to: www.campbling.org / www.ppps.org.uk / on face­book search for Sax­on King In Pri­o­ry Park.

Lim­it­ed accom­mo­da­tion is avail­able on site in the form of tents, please bring warm cloth­ing and harness/lock on gear if poss, same old things need­ed; peo­ple, climb­ing gear/lock on gear, her­ras fenc­ing, scaff bar/clips, kit and dona­tions.

On Fri­day a coun­cil meet­ing was halt­ed for 20 min­utes fol­low­ing protests over the new plans.