This is your chance to say "No" to the East of England Regional Assembly (EERA). Jubilant 'No' campaigners were celebrating on Friday, 5 November, after North East voters rejected an elected regional assembly by a margin of three-to-one. The EERA is not even "elected" but it is deciding what is going to happen in Rochford District.
Rochford District Residents has made its formal objections to a by pass through the green belt of Rochford asking for the East of England Plan to recognise the alternative of enhancing the A127. In addition we have objected to an additional 4600 new houses in green belt. If the by pass must go through the Green Belt of Rochford District then Sir Teddy Taylor says that we can get guarantees of no ribbon development; we have asked the EERA if this is possible, legally and enforceably in perpetuity.
The documents are here;
http://cardshark.pcs-net.com/BVPP/eera1.pdf
http://cardshark.pcs-net.com/BVPP/eera2.pdf
ECHO COMMENT - Let's follow lead of the North-East
ESSEX County Council and the Eastern Regional Assembly met in Southend on Friday to do battle over the county's most fraught issue, the government's plan to impose 123,000 new houses onto Essex soil. Essex, in alliance with other county councils in a similar quandary, wants to cut this number to a realistic figure. The East of England Assembly dismissed their pleas out of hand. By a striking coincidence of timing, the Southend meeting coincided with results of the referendum on a regional assembly for the north-east of England. The vote to throw out such an assembly, 78 per cent against, 22 per cent in favour, can fairly be described as overwhelming. Northumberland and Durham voters got the chance to make their feelings clear. We in Essex should be so lucky. The Eastern Assembly has simply been imposed on us. It masquerades as a democratic body but in reality it is a dictatorship that has never known a vote in its life. It has arrived to dominate politics in the county with little public announcement and no mandate whatever. The North-East has given us a welcome precedent. Any decisions by the Eastern Assembly should be scorned and rejected out of hand by the people of Essex.
"Save Green Belt from the East Of England Regional Assembly (EERA)"
Rochford District Council called for abolition of Regional Assembly at The Policy & Finance Committee at its meeting on 11 November 2004. John Mason had the great pleasure of Voting For the Motion under a Recorded Vote.
That, given the result of the Regional Assembly Referendum in the NE of England last Friday, this Council write to the Deputy Prime Minister, John Prescott, demanding that he completely reviews the role and function of the "so called" Regional Assemblies that currently exist. We also demand that the East of England Regional Assembly be dismantled and that the strategic planning powers and responsibilities be devolved back to County, Unitary and District and Borough Councils in a form agreeable to County, Unitary and District and Borough Councils. This Council further calls upon the Deputy Prime Minister to re-appraise the work of the Regional Development Agencies and ensure that they work at an appropriately local level and that they are accountable to local councils.
Alan Moore,
Head of Regional
Planning and Transportation for the East of England Regional Assembly (EERA) says;
"The Southend relief road is considered of significant strategic importance to secure the regeneration of the area. As you will be aware Southend forms part of the Thames Gateway, which is both a regional and national priority for economic and social regeneration. Importantly both road and rail transport infrastructures play key parts of the strategy for the area. "
The EERA is launching a Public Consultation on the 8th December 2004. The document is called RSS14 and the consultation will be called "The East of England Plan"
Click Here so your details can be added to the EERA contacts database so that they can keep you informed about these matters.
Formal plans have yet to be drawn up but the top planner for eastern England confirmed to the Echo that a Southend relief road is a key part of the strategy for the area's development.
No mention of the proposal is made in the East of England Regional Assembly's draft plan for the regeneration of south Essex, which is due to undergo a six-month public consultation from December this year (2004).
RSS14 (Policy TGSE3) says.....
"upgrades to the M25, A127 and A13, (including links with the A130 and strategic improvement on the Saddlers Farm junction) which form a strategic transport 'loop' serving the sub-region, and the provision of high quality infrastructure links to London Southend Airport, and other strategic sites to the eastern side of Southend'.
But Alan Moore, Head of Regional Planning and Transportation for the East of England Regional Assembly, said: "It is not referred to by name but it is part of the policy. It is part of the strategy."
He said a major new road was needed by about 2011 to "open up" Southend Airport and the heavily-congested eastern end of the Southend Borough.
Please
say "Yes" to this route which has been suggested by Rochford District
Councillor, John Mason, for the Southend Relief Road
which is entirely within the Southend Borough
and send this to the EERA in response to the Public Consultation.
Note : This is a broad interpretation
only from some of the public documents/comments cited below as an alternative to
the EERA view quoted above. Formal plans have yet to be drawn up but the top planner
for eastern England confirmed to the Echo that a Southend relief road is a key part of the
strategy for the area's development.
(the suggestion is based on the evidence at the bottom of this page)
Please
click here to sign our Petition.
Say "Yes" to a Relief Road for Southend which goes entirely through the Borough of Southend and NOT Rochford District
We have only ended up with this situation because Southend is doing nothing to help itself:
The way to go...the possible route starts at Poynters Lane, Shoebury, and goes to Bournes Green Chase, Thorpe Bay, taking several large houses to the south or LA Fitness and Thorpe Hall School to the North. It follows Royal Artillery Way to Eastern Avenue, the proposed site of a new Southend United ground, and Cecil Jones High School, as well as the Wellesley Hospital, negotiates Priory Crescent and joins the A127 all the way to Rayleigh.
Here is another route through Southend which has been suggested to us by a Southend Resident - Click on the link below
http://cardshark.pcs-net.com/BVPP/MartinPrescott'sScheme.pdf
This
route will not destroy the Green Belt of Rochford District
The
compulsory purchase costs for a Southend Relief Road entirely in Southend can
be found from the £1.5 Billion that the EERA has sought
from the Government - the same money that would have to be spent buying up vast
tracts of green belt in Rochford
It
will not destroy wildlife
It
will not pollute the environment outside of an existing urban conurbation
Rochford
District Council and Essex County Council will not oppose this route
The
scheme will be greeted with delight by many motorists in Southend
Southend forms part of the Thames Gateway, which is both a
regional and national priority for economic and social regeneration.
It
will secure the regeneration of Southend
Say "Yes" to a Relief Road for Southend which goes entirely through the Borough of Southend
.................. and NOT Rochford District (this is from a map provided by ECC in the 80's to show options) Formal plans have yet to be drawn up but the top planner for eastern England confirmed to the Echo that a Southend relief road is a key part of the strategy for the area's development.
Labour
is in favour of destroying Green Belt 
and...........................so
are the Conservatives 
and...........................so
are the Liberal Democrats 
But Rochford District Residents are AGAINST a Southend Relief Road
through Rochford District
Join
Our Green Ribbon Campaign - Click Here
Here
are some interesting quotes which shows you what the Labour,Conservative and
Liberal Democrat views are;
ESSEX COUNTY COUNCIL AGREES WITH US THAT THE A127 IS THE ANSWER
BUT.........ESSEX COUNTY COUNCIL IS ALSO IN FAVOUR OF A SMALL BYPASS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ECHO
- 27 January - Sir Teddy raises issue with Prescott and gets positive signals
- MP's new hope for jam-busting bypass
AN
MP has told of his renewed hope that Southend could get its long-awaited bypass
to relieve the town's chronic traffic problems Rochford and Southend East Tory
MP Sir Teddy Taylor raised the issue in the House of Commons. He said the provision
of roads was essential to any further development of homes in crowded areas
such as Southend.
But
Essex County Council's influential transport chief, Rodney Bass, has revealed
that he would only support a small bypass to relieve traffic from the east of
the town. Sir Teddy told Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott: "Providing
extra houses would simply make the already appalling traffic congestion worse,
unless the Government makes provision for the ring road we have needed for a
desperately long time." Mr Prescott said the purpose of the transport infrastructure
fund the Government had announced was to ensure sustainable communities "so
more and more people are not packed into an area where the services cannot carry
them".
Sir Teddy said afterwards: "John Prescott could not have been more helpful and I am hoping this is a positive sign we will be getting the new road.
"I have been in touch with his department and I am urging that the development which is planned for the New Ranges at Shoebury should not be allowed to go ahead until we have positive assurances the bypass will go ahead."
But Rodney Bass told a meeting of the South Essex Forum that only a small bypass to relieve traffic from the east of Southend would be acceptable.
He added: "1 have always made it clear that if it was only designed for this purpose then it would be supported by the county council.
"We would not be in favour of some major scheme going through Rochford and joining up with the rest of the road system. I personally think the A127/A13 corridor is more important than a bypass for Southend and is the area which needs the most urgent attention."
Echo
12 November 2004 - How I would fix our (Southend's) traffic problem
A Rochford councillor wants to bulldoze homes to provide a relief road for Southend
FIGHTING plans for a new by-pass running through Rochford, district councillor John Mason believes instead that the A127 should be widened between Shoebury and Rayleigh.
This, he says, would avoid the need for Rochford's green belt to be carved up to accommodate the new road, backed by the East of England Regional Assembly.
But
Southend Council leader Howard Briggs today spoke of his amazement at Mr Mason's
call for hundreds of homes to be bulldozed to make way for an outer relief road.
It was, he said, "ludicrous".
He added: "He has to get real. Who is going to pay for all this?
"Rochford has happily benefited from the expansion of Southend in terms of employment, shops, theatres and cinemas. Southend is desperate for this road. It is essential for the future economic success of the town."
Mr Mason and his party, the Rochford District Residents, have launched an internet-based campaign to oppose the proposed route through Rochford. A map on their website sets out an alternative road that would pass through built-up parts of Bournes Green, Prittlewell and Eastwood.
Mr Mason said compulsory purchase of Southend homes had been considered in the past. He added: "The inconvenience and expense involved has to be weighed against the damage to the environment and loss of open space if it passed through Rochford.
"The same money that would be used to purchase green belt could be used for this. I do have a great deal of sympathy for people who would lose their homes but it doesn't have to happen.
"We need to get hard with councils in Rochford and Southend and ensure park-and-ride schemes, red bus lanes, red parking zones and tramways - all the things they haven't done in the last 25 years."
Echo
8 November 2004 - Bid to stop relief road at Rochford
BATTLE lines were today being drawn to stop Rochford's green belt being churned up for Southend's proposed outer relief road.
Registered political party, Rochford District Residents, has launched a campaign dedicated to protecting the swathes of land which could be destroyed if the bypass goes ahead. The East of England Regional Assembly is considering building the bypass by 2011 and the most likely route would be through the Rochford district.
Residents' spokesman John Mason has now launched a website which implores people to sign a petition saying "yes" to a relief road - but through parts of Soufhend rather than Rochford.
Mr Mason said: "We want to raise the profile of this issue. "If the relief road went through Rochford it would carve a swathe right through some of the most important parts of the district's green belt. "Our route would not involve digging up any green belt land which has to be a preferred option. We would urge anyone who believes in protecting wildlife and open spaces to support this campaign."
MP Sir Teddy Taylor thought campaigners may be able to come to a compromise if it was guaranteed no shops or housing would be built either side of the ring road. He said: "The way things are looking it looks like the ring road will come, but not for a while and I accept the views of people not wanting a ring road in Rochford. There might be the possibility of people agreeing to it if we give the assurance that there will be no building on either side of it." He added: "It could be done if we guaranteed it would not be the beginning of the end of the green belt." No matter where it is put, Sir Teddy thought a new ring road was "absolutely vital" to help ease the "desperately serious" traffic problems in and around Southend.
Comment " It is hard to believe that there would be no ribbon development if the Southend Relief Road were to go through Rochford. Where else would you site the 4600 houses that have been passed by unelected Quango EERA"
EERA Announcement - 5 November 2004 - Regional Assembly approves East of England Plan
The East of England Regional Assembly today approved The East of England Plan (formerly known as the Regional Spatial Strategy 14), which guides planning and development in the region to 2021.
A majority vote from Assembly members during the meeting, held at the Civic Centre in Southend-on-Sea, approved the Plan for submission to Government and endorsed the recommendations made by the Regional Planning Panel at its meeting on 15 October 2004.
The East of England Plan makes many proposals to contribute to the quality of life and work in the region including housing, economic development, the environment, infrastructure and transport.
The Assembly eagerly awaits the Government’s decision on our £1.5 billion bid for investment in infrastructure to support this economic growth. Unless the Government recognises these needs it will be difficult to deliver these benefits.
Comment " The compulsory purchase costs for a Southend Relief Road entirely in Southend can be found from the £1.5 Billion that the EERA has sought from the Government - the same money that would have to be spent buying up vast tracts of green belt in Rochford"
Echo
November 2004 - Assembly urged: Reject homes plan
A CHARITY dedicated to protecting the English countryside today urged the East of England Regional Assembly to block a plan for 500,000 new homes in the region - including nearly 50,000 in south Essex. The Campaign to Protect Rural England made its plea as the assembly prepared to meet at Southend Civic Centre tomorrow to ratify the housebuilding scheme. The CPRE claims the mammoth project to create 478,000 new houses - including 18,500 in Thurrock, 10,700 in Basildon, 6,000 in Southend, 4,000 in Castle Point and 4,600 in Rochford - would have a devastating impact on the local environment.
It has written to each assembly member urging them to reject the proposals.The assembly is, however, expected to ratify the housebuilding plan after originally agreeing to the new homes at a meeting in February. However, a report has since been published outlining the extent of the environmental damage the plan would cause.
The report, by consultant Levett-Therivel, warns further development on any significant scale would be "intrinsically damaging" to the region's environment, especially in the Government's designated "growth area" that includes Essex.
Sir Teddy Taylor, Tory MP for Rochford and Southend East, has said the area cannot cope with the amount of homes unless the infrastructure is improved first. He said: "I don't think a single house should be built until the area's transport problem is sorted out." He admitted the area needs more homes for the region's growing population.But he added: "There is not much point solving people's housing problems if you add to the traffic problem."There is a huge amount of congestion coming in and out of Southend. "It's an impossible situation for people in Southend."
Southend Council leader Howard Briggs said he thinks the area is already overcrowded and pressure for more housing was "far too great".
The Regional Assembly meets in Southend tomorrow at 11am.The meeting is open to the public.
Comment "So we must have the Southend Relief Road because of the extra houses the Government wants in Southend and the Green Belt of Rochford District"
Echo
October 2004
AN
EASTERN relief road for Southend, cutting through countryside in the Rochford
district, is set to be built by 2011. It is believed the road will go
from Shoebury to Rochford via Southend Airport and lead on to the M1l.
Sir Teddy Taylor, MP for Rochford and Southend East, who has been pressing for the road for many years, said: "It is obviously very, very good news. "The assembly has been very helpful on this matter and I think there is a growing appreciation both from the Government and the assembly thatsuch a road is viable."
Comment
"So
the intimation from the Rochford MP is that the East of England Regional
Assembly (EERA) is already in favour of a Southend Relief Road through the Green
Belt of Rochford rather than the conurbation of Southend."
Essex
County Council 
Cllr R Bass - Cabinet Member for Highways and Transportation - Essex County Council
Responding to a Member (Rochford District Council) concern relating to an outer bypass for Southend -on-Sea, the Cabinet Member confirmed that there were no plans for the main route corridors other than for the A13 to the west of Sadlers Farm, the A130 and the A127 to the east of Sadlers Farm. The County Council would consider any requests for realignments to roads, but would not accede to any that would result in new routes within the corridor.
But
.......Cllr
T Chapman - Cabinet Member - Essex County Council and Member for Rochford North
is not against a plan for destruction of Rochford's Green Belt
At the moment I am not aware that the County Council has been informed officially of any proposal, certainly nothing has been dicussed with me.
The only information I have had on this has come from a local councillor and the press. It is impossible for me to say that I am against it since as far as I am aware it is only on Southend's wishlist. I presume that if it becomes a definite proposal that I will be fully consulted and will then be able to decide, after listening to the views of people in the Rochford North Division, if I am for or against it. If it has benefits for people living in my division (and I have already been lobbied to support any such proposal) then I will have to consider whether these benefits outweigh any negative impacts on the environment.
and
News to me - Of course I know of Southend's ambitions. Quite frankly I think that government will decide where this road goes without any consideration for local views. This will all be stitched up by the regional planning body as part of the buy off for allowing more homes to be built in Thames Gateway.
Office of the Deputy
Prime Minister - John Prescott - Thursday
31st July 2004
£1bn kick-start given to massive homes plan
Over £1 billion of public investment in the Thames Gateway will help build communities, including 120,000 new homes by 2016, Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott announced this week.
The money comes from the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (£446 million) and £600m already committed by Department for Transport.
John Prescott said: "This money will make a real difference to people in the Thames Gateway. It will be used to clean up brownfield land and build decent homes which people will live in through choice not necessity.”
"We've earmarked £330 million for projects which will accelerate development in the area, including new higher education investment and key worker and affordable housing.”
“Our long term spending plans will give developers the confidence to invest in high quality, high density development which will make the Gateway an exciting and attractive place to live and work.”
Strategic area packages include:
Southend £29.6m
South Essex’s major regional business cultural retail and leisure centre. Programme funds a town centre package of early win affordable housing at Victoria Avenue (250 dwellings), a new strategic link integrating town centre and seafront, and acquisition of the Odeon Cinema site for the development of the University campus and Business Innovation Centre. This package also funds infrastructure costs to accelerate development of Rochford business park near Southend airport, and initiates planning and design for new road access to release Southend's remaining large scale housing site over the longer term.
Office
of The Deputy Prime Minister - John Prescott - Sustainable Communities - Thames Gateway and
growth areas
Southend
Currently Southend is attempting to cope with a congested road system, for example by introducing more bus priority measures. There are long-standing plans for a northern relief road, and this is seen locally also as a means of enabling urban expansion without further overloading the road network. We believe that if such a major addition to the road network is constructed, then expansion on a much greater scale can be envisaged. This would take the form of an extension further eastwards to take in something in the order of 300 hectares of land that is mostly MOD firing ranges at Shoebury; it could also be combined with an extension of the rail passenger service beyond the Shoeburyness terminus.
Echo
- 16 September 2003:Southend: Councils clash over bypass
A clash between councils over the construction of a Southend outer bypass road has flared up again after Rochford refused to include it in its local plan.
The need for a new outer bypass to solve Southend's traffic problems has been a topic for discussion for some time. The argument for the construction of one has been given extra weight since the possible development of new homes and a high tech business park at the New Ranges in Shoebury was put forward.
(Southend) Residents and councillors believe an outer bypass to help ease extra traffic produced by a new development will be essential.
In the latest act in the long running outer bypass confrontation Rochford Council did not include any reference to the new road in its new replacement local plan.
Southend council was also set to raise other objections to the plan at its cabinet meeting this afternoon.
Both Councils are run
by the Conservatives
Echo
- Tuesday 18 April 2000: Southend, Rochford: New ally sought in plea for bypass
Rochford District Council has been urged to throw its weight behind calls for a new bypass to cut congestion in Southend.
Nora Goodman (Lib Dem) believes a meeting should go ahead to persuade Rochford councillors to back the blueprint, suggested by MP Sir Teddy Taylor.
The call has been taken up at Southend Council by leading Tories, joined by former Lib Dem leader Graham Longley.
Mrs Goodman, Councillor for Eastwood said: "My part of town has suffered because of the new B1013 road with traffic coming from Rochford.
"I believe Rochford Council should now look again to help bring about a new route out of Southend. We have done our bit. Let's get together with Rochford and see if they can help out." However, councillor Vic Leach, chairman of Rochford's transport and environmental services committee was resistant to the calls.
He said: "The question of an outer ring road for Southend north of Rayleigh and Hockley eventually linking with Sutton Road has been the subject of debate for some time, but because so much Green Belt and grade one farming land would be consumed, it just wasn't viable."
Southend's cabinet has now been told to give consideration to a new bypass and how it can be incorporated into the local transport plan.
It must report back within three months.
House
of Commons Hansard Debates for 31 Oct 2000
Ring Roads
8. Sir Teddy Taylor (Rochford and Southend, East): When he plans to make a decision on the location of new ring roads; and how many of those have been determined so far. [133308]
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions (Mr. Keith Hill): We have not determined the location of the up to 100 bypass schemes for which funding is provided in our 10-year transport plan. That will depend on priorities identified in developing regional transport strategies and local transport plans.
Sir Teddy Taylor: In setting that programme, will the Minister accept that the south-east of England, and Southend in particular, has become about the most over-congested area of the nation, and the most neglected for road programmes? Bearing in mind the impact that that has on employment, is he willing to receive an all-party deputation from Southend to discuss possible solutions, including a ring road, which is urgently needed?
Mr. Hill: It is up to Southend borough council to determine its transport priorities in seeking Government funding through its local transport plan. We have heard the judgment of Southend borough council, and the council's full local transport plan, which was submitted this July, includes proposals for public transport improvements in the A13 corridor and road improvements in the A127 corridor to assist freight movements, but no proposal for a northern A127 bypass of the town. The hon. Gentleman should address his concerns to the local authority. The Government's position is that it is for local people to find local solutions to local transport problems, and we shall do our best to support them.
House
of Commons Hansard Debates for 11 May 1999 (pt 2)
Road Building Programme (Essex)
4. Mr. David Amess (Southend, West): What recent representations he has received about the road building programme in Essex. [82783]
The Minister of Transport (Dr. John Reid): My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State has received various representations about aspects of road building and associated transport issues in Essex.
Mr. Amess: The delays in completing the M11 link road are an absolute disgrace--for which I blame the Government--and Labour's partners, the Liberal Democrats, suffered huge reverses in Southend, West on Thursday as a result of their road-building policy. How does the Minister expect us to maintain any roads in my constituency when we have suffered a 12 per cent. cut in road maintenance as a result of the Government's policy? What exactly have the Government done since 1 May 1997 to ease traffic congestion in Southend, West?
Dr. Reid: One road into Southend certainly seems to have been effective--the road from Basildon.
As the hon. Gentleman will know, we have adopted a policy of targeting roads for schemes that have been not only costed, but funded, unlike the fantasy football league wish list produced by the last Government. I would have thought that the hon. Gentleman would welcome the Government's decision to provide £92 million for the A130 in Essex. That is largely--although not exclusively--a result of the efforts of, among others, my hon. Friend the Member for Castle Point (Mrs. Butler), who has made a much more constructive contribution to the Essex infrastructure than the hon. Gentleman.
Mr. Andrew Mackinlay (Thurrock): Southend, and Essex generally, will benefit from the new A13; but will the Minister ask his Department to examine the impact of the new road as it crosses from Thurrock into the London boroughs, where there is considerable congestion, partly as a consequence of the improved road structure? Additional road traffic management schemes could provide greater mobility not only for commuters, but in the important corridor to the Thames gateway and the industrial areas on the river frontage. There is a problem on the London borough boundary, and I hope that the Minister will get his Department to look at it--at minimal cost.
Dr. Reid: Everything that we do is done at minimal cost, to the benefit of the taxpayer.
Of course I will examine the problem. My hon. Friend has made a good point. We have been contributing to an integrated transport policy in Essex, using radical but rational criteria for road building, as we have elsewhere in the country. It must be said that we have not always been helped by a Tory regime in Essex--the Tory regime that cut education spending to £3 million below the Government's recommended level, knocked £8 million off the social services budget and increased school meal charges by 15 per cent. The whole House will welcome the news that that Tory administration was toppled this morning, and that there is now a Labour leader.
Sir Teddy Taylor (Rochford and Southend, East): Is the Minister aware that it is a nightmare trying to persuade firms to establish themselves in Southend-on-Sea, where unemployment is relatively high? The problem is particularly bad in Shoeburyness. It takes about half an hour to get outside the town, because of traffic congestion. I realise that many areas suffer from congestion, but will the Minister persuade his Department to look at the congestion in Southend to see whether it is worse than the average, and whether there might be a case for a ring road? That would greatly ease all our problems.
Dr. Reid: I speak from memory, but I believe that some years ago, there was a plan for a Rochford bypass in the hon. Gentleman's area. I think--again, I speak from memory--that the scheme was withdrawn because the last Conservative Government refused to make funds available, or at least were extremely unlikely to do so. I assure the hon. Gentleman, however, that since then Southend, and Essex as a whole, have been promoting more sustainable transport measures as part of the south-east Essex transport package. I am glad to say that my Department has supported that for the last four years, under both Conservative and Labour Governments.
Monday
18 May 1992 - The House met at half-past Two o'clock
Traffic Congestion
4. Dr. Michael Clark : To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what measures he is taking to reduce traffic congestion in south-east Essex.
The Secretary of State for Transport (Mr. John MacGregor) : My Department and Essex county council are preparing several schemes that will benefit south-east Essex directly or indirectly. These schemes will complement work already completed and bring about a progressive improvement in traffic flows on both trunk and county roads.
Dr. Clark : May I congratulate my right hon. Friend on his new appointment and wish him every success in his high office? Is he aware that Essex county council has been diligent in providing new roads and bypasses in the northern and central parts of the county where population is sparse, or at best moderate, but has not done so much for the south-east of Essex where there is heavy traffic and a great deal of congestion on the roads? Will he assist in redressing the balance by providing some funds for the Rochford bypass so that people may travel in and out of the Southend conurbation without bringing my constituency to a halt?
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