STOP TESCO

Research by Stop Tesco St Albans has shown that building a Tesco store in London Road, St Albans could cause a 70% increase in traffic movements in the local area. The research predicts over 2,000 traffic movements per hour between 11am and 3pm on Saturdays. Tailbacks in London Road that already block the end of Alma Road would be made significantly worse, causing gridlock in the area.

Stop Tesco volunteers spent several Saturdays counting existing traffic levels on London Road as well as the traffic in and out of the Sainsbury’s store in Everard Close, which is a similar size to Tesco’s proposed store. When added together, the massive increase in traffic movements is seen. (The following graph shows the hour-by-hour impact of the extra traffic on London Road predicted by Stop Tesco for an average Saturday as well as a table showing the number of traffic movements measured by Stop Tesco in both areas).

Tesco’s planned store will rely hugely on car-based visitors as the majority of buses from the East of St Albans pass the existing Morrisons store and then go down Victoria Street away from the proposed site. In addition, if the Tesco car park is full, there is no available overflow parking, which will lead to further pressure on nearby residential areas.

Mike Dilke of Stop Tesco St Albans comments,

“Tesco’s published plans for its new store show a total lack of awareness of the scale of traffic problems its store would bring to this part of St Albans. The store will gridlock the entire local area, but all Tesco has suggested is a short slip lane and one controlled crossing, plus some rephasing of existing traffic lights.

“We cannot see how any further improvements would alleviate the problem, given the narrow streets and Victorian street plan of the local area – there is nowhere else for traffic to go! Tesco must see that its plans will not work, and sit down again with the council and local people to find a better use for the land – one that ideally includes affordable housing and a school.”

Stop Tesco St Albans Incorporates

To help the process of campaigning against Tesco’s plans, Stop Tesco St Albans group has formed a company limited by guarantee, STOP Tesco St Albans Limited. The company can now formally accept and account for donations for its work in opposing Tesco’s plans. Donations were formerly handled by the St Albans Civic Society, for whose help Stop Tesco St Albans is very grateful.

The continuing aims of the group are to:

ensure that there is full involvement of the local community in the debate, discussion and decisions relating to the redevelopment of the area bordered by Alma Road, Bedford Road, Inkerman Road, Lattimore Road and London Road in St Albans;
represent the views of people opposed to a large scale supermarket development on the site;
encourage redevelopment of the site which accords with the wishes and views of local residents and the wider community in St Albans and Hertfordshire; and
encourage and support local community activity aimed at improving the cohesiveness of community and the wellbeing and vitality of people and infrastructure in St Albans.

For further information, contact:

Simon Hepburn, 07914 399612, simonhepburn@mac.com

Notes for editors:

Stop Tesco St Albans Limited is a non-political group formed by concerned individuals in St Albans. It is proposed to register the company with the Charity Commission.
Our goal is to see the former Eversheds site on London Road, St Albans, used not for a Tesco superstore, but for the benefit of the community and the city of St Albans.
Over 5,500 people have signed a petition against Tesco’s plans, and 83% of local businesses and all local politicians are also against the proposed store.

The St Albans Stop Tesco group met with Michael Kissman, Tesco Corporate Development Manager, on Tuesday 3rd July. During the meeting, Mr Kissman dashed the hopes of over 5,000 local residents and hundreds of local businesses by insisting that Tesco would build another supermarket in the City on London Road.

Mr Kissman offered to listen to concerns about the site but showed Tesco’s indifference to the real feelings of the thousands of local people who are against any supermarket development when he said, ”we build supermarkets. We are not in the house-building trade. We’re not going to pretend that we will build something else”.

When confronted with a list of the needs of the City, Mr Kissman said that local people needed to talk to the council, not Tesco, about them. He also claimed that because no one else had offered to buy the land, and St Albans District Council had not compulsorily purchased it, there was no demand for an alternative use.

Stop Tesco pointed out that property developers do not approach people who have expressed a desire to build on land, they buy land that is up for sale! Stop Tesco will also be writing to the council to ask them to purchase the land for community use including social and family housing and a primary school.

· Tesco expect to put its planning application in during the next ‘two or three’ months. Tesco blame the slow progress of its application on the complexity of the planning process and would not commit to a timetable for action.

· Even if planning permission were speedily obtained Tesco admitted that it would take several years before the store was open.

· Tesco admitted that it is sensitive about its reputation and had made mistakes in the past, for example in Stockport, where a store was built 20% larger than planning permission granted the company.

· Tesco has consulted local police and the Chamber of Commerce among other organisations, but had not spoken to any residents group before this meeting in six months of consultation.

· Tesco agreed to consider opening the car park on the former Eversheds site behind the Peugeot garage to demonstrate how extra shoppers would be attracted to London Road by additional parking.

Mike Dilke of Stop Tesco says, “We are aware that Tesco has the right to apply for planning permission. We did have some hope that it would also show some awareness of its responsibility to the needs of local people, but this is not the case. It appears that the only reason Tesco met us was to tick a box on their 'consultation exercise' to be able to say that it had consulted local people. We feel that they did not take the views of St Albans people seriously and had few positive suggestions to solve our concerns.

“We will both vigorously oppose any planning application and continue to communicate the views of the vast majority of the people of St Albans to Tesco and local and national planning authorities.”

A presentation containing the main objections of the people of St Albans to the Tesco store can now be downloaded from www.stoptesco.com.

Press Release - 4th June 2007

A detailed survey of all the retailers close to the proposed Tesco development in London Road, St Albans has found 83% opposed to Tesco’s published plans, with only 10% in favour.

Volunteers from the St. Albans Stop Tesco action group questioned all the traders at the Saturday and Farmers Markets, as well as retailers on London Road, Victoria Street, Alma Road and Lattimore Road.

Retailers from a wide variety of sectors including food, clothing, household goods, stationery, mobile phones and dry cleaners were surveyed – a full breakdown can be seen at www.stoptesco.com.

In March, Tesco released the results of a significantly smaller survey it had carried out. The company claimed the results showed that ’16 of 27 local businesses’ were in favour of the development. None of the 196 retailers questioned by Stop Tesco said that they had taken part in Tesco’s survey.

“We were deeply suspicious of Tesco’s original survey given the opposition we heard from the local businesses we use every day.

“Tesco was recently refused planning permission for a superstore for potentially affecting the livelihood of just 24 local businesses in Finchley, North London. We think that the voices of the 160 local businesses that oppose Tesco in St Albans should be heard."

CASE STUDY: The Londis food store in London Road is opposed to the new Tesco store and has been actively collecting signatures against the development. To find out why, call Mohesh on 01727 865317.

For further information, contact Angela Nicholls, 07758 589 499, angienicholls820@msn.com

Ø Stop Tesco is a non-political group formed by concerned individuals in St Albans. Our goal is to see the former Eversheds site on London Road, St Albans, used not for a Tesco superstore, but for the benefit of the community and the city of St Albans

Ø Stop Tesco attracted over 200 people to a public meeting on 17th January 2007. Since then, it has formed action committees and canvassed the opinions of many local residents. The website www.stoptesco.com hosts a petition against Tesco’s use of the London Road site, as well as the latest campaign information, a list of actions for supporters to take and downloadable posters.

Over 4,300 people have now signed Stop Tesco’s petition against Tesco’s proposed London Road, St Albans supermarket.

Stop Tesco volunteers were joined by MP Anne Main at the Farmers Market in St Albans on 13th May. and despite atrocious weather gathered another 450 signatures against Tesco’s proposed development in London Road. Users of the Farmers Market were very supportive of the campaign, with many fearing for the future of the markets in St Albans if Tesco’s 50,000 sq ft store was to open. (A picture of Anne Main MP with Chris Adkins and Ian Langford of Stop Tesco is attached)

Petition forms have also been arriving at Stop Tesco from many local residents with a number of local businesses including Londis in London Road acting as collecting stations.

In addition, 160 people have signed the online petition aimed specifically at people who cannot and have not signed a paper petition.

An analysis of the petition shows that 92% of those who left a postcode come from St Albans, and 32% live in the AL1 postcode area around the proposed development.

Mike Dilke from Stop Tesco says, “The number of local people signing the petition has exceeded the wildest estimate we had when launching our campaign. The people of St Albans are saying ‘Stop’ to Tesco with one voice.

“We urge Tesco to talk to us and local councillors now to find an alternative use for the site so that it can quickly be brought back from its current derelict state.”

Stop Tesco will be campaigning at the St Albans Market on Wednesday 30th May – our target for the day is to bring the petition to over 5,000 signatures.

Press Release - 16^th April 2007

Tesco Protestors Unite Across Party Lines

On Friday 13^th April, local politicians the three main parties and members of the St Albans Stop Tesco group met Liberal Democrat MP Ed Davey to discuss how to stop Tesco’s proposed new St Albans supermarket. Ed Davey is successfully fighting a proposed Tesco superstore in his constituency, Kingston and Surbiton.

As well as Ed Davey, speakers included St Albans Conservative MP Anne Main, Liberal Democrat prospective parliamentary candidate MP Sandy Walkington, Councillor Roma Mills, leader of the Labour Group on St Albans District Council, District Councillor Chris White and Mike Dilke of Stop Tesco.

Sandy Walkington opened the meeting. He began by making it clear that the event was non-party political, saying ‘I’m delighted that Anne Main is here. I’m delighted that Roma Mills is here.’ He also made his feelings about the development clear, saying ‘when I heard about the Tesco development I thought “this is completely ludicrous – it’s like dropping an atom bomb on the centre of St Albans.”’

Ed Davey MP warned campaigners about the scale of the task facing them, but offered his support. He said ‘I feel there is an uneven playing field between developers and local people, so I’m very keen to share experience and best practice to even the playing field and give the local community a better chance.’

Anne Main MP added her support. She revealed that she had met with Tesco to ‘find out exactly what they want to put on that site’. She argued strongly that the site should be used to solve housing needs, saying ‘we need to keep that site, or we will lose green fields.’

Councillor Roma Mills referred to the fact that councillors cannot formally express an opinion on a planning issue if they will later sit on a planning committee considering the application. She said ‘I’ve never had a problem in speaking up for my residents about issues that concern them, and I don’t have a problem in saying this evening that I am against the Tesco development on this site.’

Councillor Chris White reported on his discussions with the County Council about the traffic planning aspect of the development. He also gave his own view on the development, saying ‘in equivalent places a Tesco this size just doesn’t work’.

Following the introductory speeches, options for combating the development were discussed. Local residents and representatives from the Civic Society contributed additional ideas. All present agreed to continue to fight the development and to put particular effort into finding legal grounds to oppose the development at the planning stage.

Mike Dilke from Stop Tesco says. ‘We are delighted that all the main political parties oppose the development and want a better use for the area. We are also incredibly grateful to everyone present for their advice and ideas.

‘Our campaign will continue and develop over the next few weeks and we urge local people to get involved – Tesco can be defeated!’

For further information, contact

Mike Dilke from Stop Tesco said, ‘Volunteers worked from 8.30am to 3.30pm. Almost everyone we spoke to including business owners, tourists and local residents thought that the proposals were bad for St Albans. This feedback shows we are right to oppose the supermarket development’.

Ø Stop Tesco is a non-party political group formed by concerned individuals in St Albans with the help of the St Albans Civic Society. Our goal is to see the former Eversheds site on London Road, St Albans, used not for a Tesco superstore, but for the benefit of the community and the city of St Albans

Ø Stop Tesco attracted over 200 people to a public meeting on 17th January 2007. Since then, it has formed action committees and canvassed the opinions of many local residents. The campaign has also gathered the support of local political parties and action groups and national politicians. The website www.stoptesco.com has received over 2,500 visitors – it now hosts a petition against Tesco’s use of the London Road site, as well as the latest campaign information, a list of actions for supporters to take and downloadable posters.


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Our press contact is as follows	Angela Nicholls, 07977 172 881, angienicholls820@msn.com

Press Releases
Tesco’s Traffic Nightmare on London Road Research by Stop Tesco St Albans has shown that building a Tesco store in London Road, St Albans could cause a 70% increase in traffic movements in the local area. The research predicts over 2,000 traffic movements per hour between 11am and 3pm on Saturdays. Tailbacks in London Road that already block the end of Alma Road would be made significantly worse, causing gridlock in the area. Stop Tesco volunteers spent several Saturdays counting existing traffic levels on London Road as well as the traffic in and out of the Sainsbury’s store in Everard Close, which is a similar size to Tesco’s proposed store. When added together, the massive increase in traffic movements is seen. (The following graph shows the hour-by-hour impact of the extra traffic on London Road predicted by Stop Tesco for an average Saturday as well as a table showing the number of traffic movements measured by Stop Tesco in both areas). Tesco’s planned store will rely hugely on car-based visitors as the majority of buses from the East of St Albans pass the existing Morrisons store and then go down Victoria Street away from the proposed site. In addition, if the Tesco car park is full, there is no available overflow parking, which will lead to further pressure on nearby residential areas. Mike Dilke of Stop Tesco St Albans comments, “Tesco’s published plans for its new store show a total lack of awareness of the scale of traffic problems its store would bring to this part of St Albans. The store will gridlock the entire local area, but all Tesco has suggested is a short slip lane and one controlled crossing, plus some rephasing of existing traffic lights. “We cannot see how any further improvements would alleviate the problem, given the narrow streets and Victorian street plan of the local area – there is nowhere else for traffic to go! Tesco must see that its plans will not work, and sit down again with the council and local people to find a better use for the land – one that ideally includes affordable housing and a school.” Stop Tesco St Albans Incorporates To help the process of campaigning against Tesco’s plans, Stop Tesco St Albans group has formed a company limited by guarantee, STOP Tesco St Albans Limited. The company can now formally accept and account for donations for its work in opposing Tesco’s plans. Donations were formerly handled by the St Albans Civic Society, for whose help Stop Tesco St Albans is very grateful. The continuing aims of the group are to: ensure that there is full involvement of the local community in the debate, discussion and decisions relating to the redevelopment of the area bordered by Alma Road, Bedford Road, Inkerman Road, Lattimore Road and London Road in St Albans; represent the views of people opposed to a large scale supermarket development on the site; encourage redevelopment of the site which accords with the wishes and views of local residents and the wider community in St Albans and Hertfordshire; and encourage and support local community activity aimed at improving the cohesiveness of community and the wellbeing and vitality of people and infrastructure in St Albans. For further information, contact: Simon Hepburn, 07914 399612, simonhepburn@mac.com Notes for editors: Stop Tesco St Albans Limited is a non-political group formed by concerned individuals in St Albans. It is proposed to register the company with the Charity Commission. Our goal is to see the former Eversheds site on London Road, St Albans, used not for a Tesco superstore, but for the benefit of the community and the city of St Albans. Over 5,500 people have signed a petition against Tesco’s plans, and 83% of local businesses and all local politicians are also against the proposed store. Press Release - 7 July THE MAN FROM TESCO SAYS ‘NO’ TO 5,000 PEOPLE FROM ST ALBANS The St Albans Stop Tesco group met with Michael Kissman, Tesco Corporate Development Manager, on Tuesday 3rd July. During the meeting, Mr Kissman dashed the hopes of over 5,000 local residents and hundreds of local businesses by insisting that Tesco would build another supermarket in the City on London Road. Mr Kissman offered to listen to concerns about the site but showed Tesco’s indifference to the real feelings of the thousands of local people who are against any supermarket development when he said, ”we build supermarkets. We are not in the house-building trade. We’re not going to pretend that we will build something else”. When confronted with a list of the needs of the City, Mr Kissman said that local people needed to talk to the council, not Tesco, about them. He also claimed that because no one else had offered to buy the land, and St Albans District Council had not compulsorily purchased it, there was no demand for an alternative use. Stop Tesco pointed out that property developers do not approach people who have expressed a desire to build on land, they buy land that is up for sale! Stop Tesco will also be writing to the council to ask them to purchase the land for community use including social and family housing and a primary school. The meeting also covered the following issues: · Tesco expect to put its planning application in during the next ‘two or three’ months. Tesco blame the slow progress of its application on the complexity of the planning process and would not commit to a timetable for action. · Even if planning permission were speedily obtained Tesco admitted that it would take several years before the store was open. · Tesco admitted that it is sensitive about its reputation and had made mistakes in the past, for example in Stockport, where a store was built 20% larger than planning permission granted the company. · Tesco has consulted local police and the Chamber of Commerce among other organisations, but had not spoken to any residents group before this meeting in six months of consultation. · Tesco agreed to consider opening the car park on the former Eversheds site behind the Peugeot garage to demonstrate how extra shoppers would be attracted to London Road by additional parking. Mike Dilke of Stop Tesco says, “We are aware that Tesco has the right to apply for planning permission. We did have some hope that it would also show some awareness of its responsibility to the needs of local people, but this is not the case. It appears that the only reason Tesco met us was to tick a box on their 'consultation exercise' to be able to say that it had consulted local people. We feel that they did not take the views of St Albans people seriously and had few positive suggestions to solve our concerns. “We will both vigorously oppose any planning application and continue to communicate the views of the vast majority of the people of St Albans to Tesco and local and national planning authorities.” A presentation containing the main objections of the people of St Albans to the Tesco store can now be downloaded from www.stoptesco.com. Press Release - 4th June 2007 83% of 196 St Albans Retailers Say ‘No’ To Tesco A detailed survey of all the retailers close to the proposed Tesco development in London Road, St Albans has found 83% opposed to Tesco’s published plans, with only 10% in favour. Volunteers from the St. Albans Stop Tesco action group questioned all the traders at the Saturday and Farmers Markets, as well as retailers on London Road, Victoria Street, Alma Road and Lattimore Road. Retailers from a wide variety of sectors including food, clothing, household goods, stationery, mobile phones and dry cleaners were surveyed – a full breakdown can be seen at www.stoptesco.com. Who did Tesco survey? In March, Tesco released the results of a significantly smaller survey it had carried out. The company claimed the results showed that ’16 of 27 local businesses’ were in favour of the development. None of the 196 retailers questioned by Stop Tesco said that they had taken part in Tesco’s survey. Liz Needham, who co-ordinated the survey for Stop Tesco, comments, “We were deeply suspicious of Tesco’s original survey given the opposition we heard from the local businesses we use every day. “Tesco was recently refused planning permission for a superstore for potentially affecting the livelihood of just 24 local businesses in Finchley, North London. We think that the voices of the 160 local businesses that oppose Tesco in St Albans should be heard." CASE STUDY: The Londis food store in London Road is opposed to the new Tesco store and has been actively collecting signatures against the development. To find out why, call Mohesh on 01727 865317. For further information, contact Angela Nicholls, 07758 589 499, angienicholls820@msn.com Notes for editors: Ø Stop Tesco is a non-political group formed by concerned individuals in St Albans. Our goal is to see the former Eversheds site on London Road, St Albans, used not for a Tesco superstore, but for the benefit of the community and the city of St Albans Ø Stop Tesco attracted over 200 people to a public meeting on 17th January 2007. Since then, it has formed action committees and canvassed the opinions of many local residents. The website www.stoptesco.com hosts a petition against Tesco’s use of the London Road site, as well as the latest campaign information, a list of actions for supporters to take and downloadable posters. 21st May 2007 Anti-Tesco Petition Exceeds 4,300… Will Tesco Step Back? Over 4,300 people have now signed Stop Tesco’s petition against Tesco’s proposed London Road, St Albans supermarket. Stop Tesco volunteers were joined by MP Anne Main at the Farmers Market in St Albans on 13th May. and despite atrocious weather gathered another 450 signatures against Tesco’s proposed development in London Road. Users of the Farmers Market were very supportive of the campaign, with many fearing for the future of the markets in St Albans if Tesco’s 50,000 sq ft store was to open. (A picture of Anne Main MP with Chris Adkins and Ian Langford of Stop Tesco is attached) Petition forms have also been arriving at Stop Tesco from many local residents with a number of local businesses including Londis in London Road acting as collecting stations. In addition, 160 people have signed the online petition aimed specifically at people who cannot and have not signed a paper petition. Local support for a local campaign An analysis of the petition shows that 92% of those who left a postcode come from St Albans, and 32% live in the AL1 postcode area around the proposed development. Mike Dilke from Stop Tesco says, “The number of local people signing the petition has exceeded the wildest estimate we had when launching our campaign. The people of St Albans are saying ‘Stop’ to Tesco with one voice. “We urge Tesco to talk to us and local councillors now to find an alternative use for the site so that it can quickly be brought back from its current derelict state.” Stop Tesco will be campaigning at the St Albans Market on Wednesday 30th May – our target for the day is to bring the petition to over 5,000 signatures. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, CALL: Angela Nicholls, 07977 172 881, angienicholls820@msn.com Or Simon Hepburn, 07914 399612, simonhepburn@mac.com Press Release - 16^th April 2007 Tesco Protestors Unite Across Party Lines On Friday 13^th April, local politicians the three main parties and members of the St Albans Stop Tesco group met Liberal Democrat MP Ed Davey to discuss how to stop Tesco’s proposed new St Albans supermarket. Ed Davey is successfully fighting a proposed Tesco superstore in his constituency, Kingston and Surbiton. As well as Ed Davey, speakers included St Albans Conservative MP Anne Main, Liberal Democrat prospective parliamentary candidate MP Sandy Walkington, Councillor Roma Mills, leader of the Labour Group on St Albans District Council, District Councillor Chris White and Mike Dilke of Stop Tesco. United in opposition Sandy Walkington opened the meeting. He began by making it clear that the event was non-party political, saying ‘I’m delighted that Anne Main is here. I’m delighted that Roma Mills is here.’ He also made his feelings about the development clear, saying ‘when I heard about the Tesco development I thought “this is completely ludicrous – it’s like dropping an atom bomb on the centre of St Albans.”’ Ed Davey MP warned campaigners about the scale of the task facing them, but offered his support. He said ‘I feel there is an uneven playing field between developers and local people, so I’m very keen to share experience and best practice to even the playing field and give the local community a better chance.’ Anne Main MP added her support. She revealed that she had met with Tesco to ‘find out exactly what they want to put on that site’. She argued strongly that the site should be used to solve housing needs, saying ‘we need to keep that site, or we will lose green fields.’ Councillor Roma Mills referred to the fact that councillors cannot formally express an opinion on a planning issue if they will later sit on a planning committee considering the application. She said ‘I’ve never had a problem in speaking up for my residents about issues that concern them, and I don’t have a problem in saying this evening that I am against the Tesco development on this site.’ Councillor Chris White reported on his discussions with the County Council about the traffic planning aspect of the development. He also gave his own view on the development, saying ‘in equivalent places a Tesco this size just doesn’t work’. Following the introductory speeches, options for combating the development were discussed. Local residents and representatives from the Civic Society contributed additional ideas. All present agreed to continue to fight the development and to put particular effort into finding legal grounds to oppose the development at the planning stage. Mike Dilke from Stop Tesco says. ‘We are delighted that all the main political parties oppose the development and want a better use for the area. We are also incredibly grateful to everyone present for their advice and ideas. ‘Our campaign will continue and develop over the next few weeks and we urge local people to get involved – Tesco can be defeated!’ For further information, contact Angela Nicholls, 07977 172 881, angienicholls820@msn.com St Albans ‘Stop Tesco’ Group gathers 700 signatures in one day… Stop Tesco started gathering signatures for a petition calling for an alternative to the Tesco development in London Road at the St Albans City Market on Saturday 24th March. The group, formed of concerned local residents, was amazed to gather over 700 names in just one day. Mike Dilke from Stop Tesco said, ‘Volunteers worked from 8.30am to 3.30pm. Almost everyone we spoke to including business owners, tourists and local residents thought that the proposals were bad for St Albans. This feedback shows we are right to oppose the supermarket development’. What alternative do you want? Given the scale of opposition to the proposed supermarket development, Stop Tesco would like St Albans residents and business people to tell them what they would like to see the site used for instead. Suggestions received to date include social housing, a school, a heath centre, community sports facilities and environmentally-friendly small business units. The campaign invites people to email their ideas to tescocampaign@yahoo.co.uk, visit www.stoptesco.com/ideas or leave a message on 07758 589499. Ideas will be put to a public vote later this year. Mike Dilke adds, ‘We really want to use this land to help St Albans – it would be a waste to build a supermarket that will only attract traffic into the City and cause pollution rather than something that will benefit the local community.’ For further information, contact Jen Compton, 07758 589499, jcompton76@yahoo.co.uk Or Angela Nicholls, 07977 172 881, angienicholls820@msn.com Notes for editors: Ø Stop Tesco is a non-party political group formed by concerned individuals in St Albans with the help of the St Albans Civic Society. Our goal is to see the former Eversheds site on London Road, St Albans, used not for a Tesco superstore, but for the benefit of the community and the city of St Albans Ø Stop Tesco attracted over 200 people to a public meeting on 17th January 2007. Since then, it has formed action committees and canvassed the opinions of many local residents. The campaign has also gathered the support of local political parties and action groups and national politicians. The website www.stoptesco.com has received over 2,500 visitors – it now hosts a petition against Tesco’s use of the London Road site, as well as the latest campaign information, a list of actions for supporters to take and downloadable posters.

Tesco’s Traffic Nightmare on London Road

Stop Tesco St Albans Incorporates

Press Release - 4th June 2007

For further information, contact Angela Nicholls, 07758 589 499, angienicholls820@msn.com

Press Release - 16th April 2007

Tesco Protestors Unite Across Party Lines

For further information, contact

Press Release - 16^th April 2007