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Fight to save Wickford beauty spot is lost

1:25pm Monday 20th October 2008 in


THE fight to save a Wickford beauty spot has been lost.

About 200 homes will be built on Barn Hall fields after Hazel Blears, the Secretary of State, overturned Basildon Council’s decision to protect the area.

Campaigners fear the move will open the floodgates for developers Gleeson Homes to build up to 1,000 homes on the 100-acre site.

Jacqueline Boynes, of the Wickford North Green Action Group, said: “Homes could now pop up all over this beautiful area. I am shocked.”

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Comments(18)

Gary Hobbs says...
1:48pm Mon 20 Oct 08

This is a shame, roll on the WAGS

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Marshwalker says...
3:17pm Mon 20 Oct 08

As someone quoted last week, the A127 & A13 corridor, will be all suburbs of a Greater London. With no open land in between. I bet that Hazel Blears does not live in this part of Essex, if at all. Brentwood,Billericay
, Basildon,Canvey Is, Hadliegh, Rayliegh, Rochford, & Southend, and all little bits inbetween will just part of this Greater London. All our pleasurable spaces will taken away for more people from the EU and beyond. GOD Help us all.

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Jose El Mezclador says...
3:30pm Mon 20 Oct 08

I given my address as Greater London for years

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mcrobber says...
3:35pm Mon 20 Oct 08

these houses are needed for the 4 million immigrants labour have already let in and for the 10 million extra they are bringing in by 2050. get used to it, you can do nothing to stop the immigration surge and you will have to give up your job, your house, your pension and the english way of life.

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Marshwalker says...
4:25pm Mon 20 Oct 08

Good job I've already retired then.
4 Mr Singhs are doing my job now!

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marhu says...
5:27pm Mon 20 Oct 08

Has Hazel Blears ever visited Wickford? May I suggest John Baron invites her to do so in order to meet the residents and explain why she feel justified in overturning a decision made by our Councillors.

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MrsH says...
7:43pm Mon 20 Oct 08

Have the Council done anything to safeguard the rest of Barn Hall, as they didn't act quickly enough to save this part.
Once the first part has been built upon, it will only be a matter of time before the rest disappears under concrete.
The residents were led to believe the Masterplan covered all the housing needs for Wickford - now we will end up with 700 monstorous flats and at least 200 houses, all within a quater of a mile of each other. There are no obvious signs of improvement in the High St or infrastructure. Wickford will become gridlocked and the trains crowded beyone belief. What a mess.

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springthing says...
8:16pm Mon 20 Oct 08

Why can't they knock down a few of the empty units over at shotgate & build on that?

Even better get rid of the travellers at crays hill & build the houses there!

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Alan Ball says...
10:24pm Mon 20 Oct 08

Well done Mrs H. above, The Wickford Action Group have spent the last two years or so explaining to residents this exact scenario. I even got a prominent Wickford Councillor to agree with me on the point that if we got the Masterplan and Barn Hall this would be a nightmare scenario. He knows who he is.
The Council failed to get Barn Hall designated as ‘Green Belt’ by failing to implement a new local plan. It is ‘land of special reserve’ which means it can be built on as it will unfortunately be now.
We have been pillared by Councillors, Estate Agents and some residents but in the end unfortunately the people of Wickford, and the Wickford Action Group, called it correctly.
Your Council and Councillors have failed the people of Wickford. This is unacceptable.

If Mrs H. or Gary Hobbs above, or any other residents, would like to get in touch they can at balla@btinternet.com
, or visit www.wickfordactiongr
oup.org.uk for more information.

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Winston Smith says...
7:18am Tue 21 Oct 08

Yet another reason to boot out Nu-Liebour. What is the point of a planning system if every time a development is opposed some Nu-Liebour politico just steamrolls it through?

It is now so obvious that Nu-Liebour are in the pockets of big business and don't give a **** for the ordinary people of Britain.

They are all pigs with their snouts deep in the trough at the expense of the rest of us.

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ianwicko says...
1:40pm Tue 21 Oct 08

If you want information on Hazel Blears go to http://www.communiti
es.gov.uk/profiles/c
orporate/hazelblears
, apparently she lives in Salford, why would she care about Wickford? and she loves gardening, talk about a contradiction, she's just killed a beauty spot!!! she needs to justify her actions.

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ianwicko says...
1:45pm Tue 21 Oct 08

EMAIL ADDRESS FOR HAZEL BLEARS: blearsh@parliament.u
k, WEB ADDRESS: WWW.HAZELBLEARS.CO.U
K

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Christine Strand says...
2:01pm Tue 21 Oct 08



Thank-you so much Hazel Blears for illustrating yet again what a waste of space the labour government truely are.
I find it criminal that she can over turn a decision & allow more green lung to be dissolved, she clearly has no thought for the environment or the environment that we are going to have to put up with as a direct result of her thoughtless actions.

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Sparky Mark says...
2:32pm Tue 21 Oct 08

I am going to email this Hazel Blears and demand an explantion.

If she receives a few hundred emails perhaps she will stop and think about her actions...

PS Hi to everyone :-) Peace

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Gary Hobbs says...
6:04pm Tue 21 Oct 08

Mr Bull,

All your interested in, is making Wickford into more of ghost town than it is at the moment.

Also you might find that Ms Blears is a LABOURITE, not a Conservative who are actually in power at the moment for Basildon/Wickford/Bi
llericay

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ianwicko says...
1:55pm Wed 22 Oct 08

Gary Hobbs you numpty, if you've got nothing decent to say about the subject then do one.

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Sparky Mark says...
2:23pm Wed 22 Oct 08

Ditto above...and what sort of name is Hary Gobbs?!

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Gary Hobbs says...
7:25pm Thu 23 Oct 08

Better than my mates name, Minty.

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