Whilst Team GB are close to winning enough gold to replace what Gordon Brown sold, the efforts of Team GB has pretty much dominated the local and national media.
As we marvel in the achievements of our nations Olympians there was a little nugget of a story featured in yesterday's Echo regarding work that is about to commence to stabilise the Cliffs on Southend seafront. Pictured in the story is Independent Party Cllr Brian Ayling along with his SKIPP camping buddies.
It was interesting to read that Cllr Ayling was thanking divine intervention for Southend Council about to commence with these works, especially when less than a month ago Cllr Ayling and SKIPP tried to prevent these works happening.
As part of the planning permission for new museum, phase 1 of the permission was to stabilise the cliff slip area. What residents may not be aware of is that Cllr Ayling and Mark Sharp of the SKIPP committee attended the recent Development & Control Committee which considered this application and spoke against the planning application which would have prevented the stabilisation of the Cliffs of which they are now so supportive.
Fortunately, the efforts of Cllr Ayling and SKIPP at Development & Control Committee were resoundly defeated and work to stabilise the Cliffs will begin next month.
1 comment:
I also spoke against this ghastly development, but I think you should get your facts right.
No-one is opposed to fixing the cliffs slippage or having a new museum; we just do not think the two should be linked.
The cliffs slipped a decade ago, that is ten years of doing very little. Building a museum on a green area is wrong, especially when there are better brownfield alternatives.
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