Time and again arrogant Southend Council gets away with wasting thousands of pounds on community consultations it has no intention of honouring.

From day one the airport was a done deal in spite of the lack of infrastructure to support it. Consultation, mostly adverse, noted, filed, binned.

Two major car parks serving the High Street sold off for development to daydreamers Southend Renaissance. No consultation, no development.

Warriors pool will be demolished and a new pool to be developed at Garons park.

Locals want the pool where it is, the centre of town. The council wants high rise development.

York Road market, no accidents or claims, to be demolished as a sudden health and safety danger.

Ideal development, close to the High Street.

For the council, a skating rink on the B&Q site is out of the question. It is Tesco property.

Cuckoo Corner is the property of cabinet councillors living in cloud cuckoo land, while plans for the dilapidated, derelict office blocks in Victoria Avenue are deferred indefinitely or until they fall down.

Len Lierens
Southchurch Road
Southend