Jaywick to be evacuated through flooding

...and they'll get a bath.

Of course I commiserate with there  inconvenience

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world's media set to arrive

No money spent on flood defences ?

I am looking forward to Bangla Desh, Syria and Indonesia sending donations to the Jaywick Flood Appeal fund.

Indeed, doctor slicer. Had it been in any of those places I think there would be no plss taking on here either.

If one takes the piss out of Jaywick, there will be nothing left!

After this disaster Experts reckon the damage could run into a £100

Had a week's holiday there in the mid-Sixties. I wudda been about 13 I think. Alright, nothing stays the same but what happened in Jaywick? Are the current inhabitants owner-occupiers, squatters, tenants??

Rumour has it that some of the floods took one look at the area and beat a hasty retreat. Indeed the lady residents were so unattractive that even the tide wouldn't take them out!

slicer

Lily Allen has offered her spare rooms to the Jaywick evacuees.

Can't see this being made into a film.

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But they are mainly on cockroaches!

(sorry you can't use that one Stephen ......already sold it to Stewart Lee. Lyne)

*-Lyne (Voice typing error)

Half the South east coast has been already Flooded by Diverse waves

Anyone remember that Ross Kemp program about Jaywick. He visited a nice gentleman from the community. The inside of his house looked like a landfill site. I remember Ross saying, you can't live like this.

Dreadful whats happened to many Parts  the poor and mentally ill Shifted out to the Coast not to mention the ,So I wont

As a Kid I spent whole summers near there in St Osyth, in our Caravan. This was in the 70's.
The area was OK, Jaywick was nice. Most of the little crappy shacks were holiday homes and were well maintained. Then they were empty for the winter and not many people were around near the seafront at Jaywick.
But, as in St Osyth Beach, These little chalets and holiday shacks have been sold either to people who could afford nothing bigger, or to buy to let landlords and so the place is full of the poorest and the most unfortunate.

I had a quick visit last January. It is indeed a shiithole.

Jaywick is like a separate third world country. A horrific place. Sort of place you live when you have officially given up on life.

Ripe for development !

yep, but the clearance would be awful. Judging by the state of some of their houses on the benefits programmes, you'd need at least 100 industrial fumigators and more skips than a boxer does a year.

Last time I was in Bognor was Like being in Poland Rife with Drunk polish men .

Last time I was in Benidorm it was like being in Blackpool full of drunk English men.

its a shythole now  and the people must feel they hasve been abandoned but wait untill the money men realise its prime real estate with a cracking seaview and nice sandy beach and big  money to be made ....then some interest may be shown !

could a problem  and cure scenario could be happening here ,prime real estae big money to be made but need to get rid of problem tenants and bulldoze the lot and build prime expensive housing , first run the place down dont spend a penny on  the place ,let the roads deteriate and proerty fall into disrepear ,highlight the people of jaywick on benefits type programes but only show the druggies ,pisheads ,and dropouts , next  at the sign of bad weather evacuate them , highlight the problems these people face and finaly condem the whole place as unfit for human habitation in its present state, disperse the people , buy iy all up ,bulldoze the lot and rebuild high end housing ,problem highlighted and solved .........

Always a bit dodgy coastal investments  with Global Warming etc.

reporting of looting in jaywick

Looting- Shirley Knott! What with all those fine upstanding inhabitants. Next thing you will tell me is that the earth is round!

Didn't someone get their stuff nicked on the Channel 4 series?,If you have drug use theft is usually a symptom.

Yes .... The crew lost all their cameras but found them the next day in cash converters.

One day Jaywick will be the new Sandbanks.

There will be Polo on the beach.

Jaywick is a strange place. I based my 6th from Geography A-Level project there, looking at the sea defence programme they were implementing at the time, along with a study of the 1953 floods. I devised a questionnaire and delivered it to around 200+ properties. The delivery and collection of the questionnaires was pretty scary, with most of the houses having some large beast of a dog or other tethered up outside or hurling itself at the front door when you knocked. As someone who wasn't (and still isn't) overly keen on dogs, I was pretty much sh****** myself most times I went to collect the responses. I vaguely remember delaying the collection for a few days in late March so the clocks would've gone back and given me an extra hour of daylight in which to collect them!

To be fair, a large percentage of people did respond (near 80% as I recall) in some way or another and there were a good number of people still living there at that time, who lived through the 1953 floods.

The place has had virtually no investment and one new estate of houses originally marketed as Jaywick struggled to sell years ago... until they were suddenly re-marketed as West Clacton!

Overall, the people I encountered were mostly friendly and helpful, even if they and their environment was a little daunting for a slightly wet-behind-the-ears 6th former!

Still, the experience served me well several years later when I spent a few months living on the outskirts of Alice Springs :)

should have just made answers up

The trouble with you lot is you refuse to divergently embrace the vibrator. Shame on all you NAAAAHZEEES  as MR churchill pronounced.

doh! clocks go forward in March, but you know what I mean.

Interesting post, gambeano.