The A1159 road is a short road skirting the north of

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, in the coastal city of

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Route

The A1159 commences its journey at Bournes Green Roundabout, its junction with the A13. The road heads northwest as Royal Artillery Way, which skirts the northern edge of the Southend urban area. The road then reaches a roundabout, with access to a housing estate to the south, and a leisure centre to the north. We follow Eastern Avenue, where the A1159 reaches another roundabout, with Fossetts Way giving access to Fossetts Park Retail Centre and Wellesley Hospital, and Sutton Road giving access to Temple Farm Industrial Estate. We then pass over Prittlewell Station, on the

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/ London Fenchurch Street Station to Southend Victoria Station. It then skirts Priory Park to the north as Priory Crescent, before it reaches a junction with the A127. At the junction, the A1159 turns right becoming the residential road of Manners Way. The road ends at the next roundabout, at the entrance to

. The other roads at the roundabout are unclassified.

A127/A1159 Cuckoo Corner & Priory Crescent

In 2000 plans were announced to dual an 800m stretch of the A1159 comprising Priory Crescent and the Cuckoo Corner junction connecting it to the

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. This plan would, alongside the widening of the road, also included rebuilding of the bridge on which the road crosses the railway line. Preparatory work in 2003 led to the discovery of the

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archaeological remains, a rare example of

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burial. The road scheme has faced local controversy due to its location over the grave site and the loss of land from the adjoining Priory Park that would occur with its construction. The scheme is opposed by single issue local campaign group
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Since 2005 it has also been the site on an

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camp known as Camp Bling. Due to the opposition from local residents and the escalation in costs the scheme is currently under review. When first proposed in 2000 the scheme was given an estimated cost of £3.5 million, but by 2006 costs had escalated to £20 million and in 2008 the new scheme was estimated at £10.8 million. This reduction in cost is mostly due to the removal of proposals to rebuild the railway bridge from the scheme. At a meeting held between campaigners and Council members at the end of April 2009 it was announced that the scheme had been abandoned following its failure to receive funding from central government.

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