The council is proposing the secondary sea wall because they want to dump many thousand tons of soil on Shoebury Common and receive a six figure sum from a developer (who has no connection with Shoebury or Southend), so they can build 450 homes. The FUSS is about a 2 metre high wall. The Council would not build a 2 metre high wall on Jubilee beach - that would cause a fuss. Alternative options would be easy to find, so why not find one? It never flooded Shoebury Common in 1953, but it did suffer serious flooding & 2 deaths in Great Wakering. Why not look at the highest risk first?
The council is proposing the secondary sea wall because they want to dump many thousand tons of soil on Shoebury Common and receive a six figure sum from a developer (who has no connection with Shoebury or Southend), so they can build 450 homes. The FUSS is about a 2 metre high wall. The Council would not build a 2 metre high wall on Jubilee beach - that would cause a fuss. Alternative options would be easy to find, so why not find one? It never flooded Shoebury Common in 1953, but it did suffer serious flooding & 2 deaths in Great Wakering. Why not look at the highest risk first?
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