Members of the Wickford North Green Action Group spent the Saturday morning of 03 May 2008 in Wickford High Street asking shoppers to support our opposition of the development of Barn Hall by signing our petition before it is presented to Hazel Blears on 23 June 2008. A successful morning's work achieved in excess of 800 new signatures on the petition - our thanks to those who supported us! WNGAG are also taking the petition to all houses in the roads around Barn Hall and will be collecting more signatures in the High Street again on Saturday, 31 May 2008.

If you haven't yet signed our new petition, you can do so by clicking here - please encourage others to sign too.

The traffic survey done by the developers as part of their Barn Hall planning application found that there was an average of only one vehicle waiting on Station Avenue at the junction with the High Street. Many local residents have made it clear that their own experience is very different to this, as at peak times this junction is gridlocked with traffic trying to exit the station and pass through the High Street and The Broadway. Photos taken by a WNGAG member on Friday, 2nd May 2008 between 17:00 and 18:30 show a very different story to the traffic survey - up to 20 cars queuing down Station Avenue with more cars waiting to exit the Station entrance - and it wasn't even raining!