Billericay Station Buffet Petitions Downing Street

The owners of Bread and Buffers, the snack bar at Billericay station, will be presenting a petition to Downing Street on Thursday. The 3,000 signature petition calls for Hugh and Nadia McMahon to be able to continue with their business after the planned £1.4 million revamp of Billericay station. Under the current plans Bread and Buffers will be knocked down to make way for a bigger ticket office. Mr and Mrs McMahon are asking for a suitable location to be provided during the rebuilding works and in the new station once completed.

Joining them on Thursday will be representatives from the Essex Federation of Small Businesses and Billericay MP John Baron.

Bread and Buffers has been operating at the station for eighteen years.

'Bread And Buffers' Campaign Gathers Pace At Billericay Station

A petition to save the shop at Billericay station now has over 2,000 signatures. 'Bread and Buffers' has been threatened with closure by National Express East Anglia (NXEA) as part of the redevelopment of Billericay station.  Local MP John Barron last month presented a petition to the Secretary of State for Transport with 1,000 signatures calling for the popular shop to stay, and another thousand signatures have been added since then.

Hugh and Nadia McMahon have run 'Bread and Buffers' for 18 years and have made it a popular and integral part of Billericay station and it is hoped that NXEA will reconsider their decision as soon as possible.