If I were a pilot or passenger flying into/from Southend, I would welcome the protection of a Class D CTR connecting with the adjacent airways system.
What is this "make the most of it now chaps..." attitude with the automatic implication that CAS is a Bad Thing? Presumably you want the "right" to fly inverted half a mile outside the ATZ across the bows of an IFR aircraft on final - which is precisely one of the "rights" excercised by some clown just after the CTR was removed those few years ago.
You would not believe the process involved in establishing CAS - and if there were to be an application, all interests have more than sufficient opportunity to make their case.
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