OVER 1,000 residents have joined community groups, business and environmental organisations, and Labor and Greens politicians to signing an Open Letter to Premier Mike Baird, Roads Minister Duncan Gay and Planning Minister Rob Stokes to demand a halt to work on St Peters Interchange and an inquiry into the whole WestCONnex project.

A FREE family picnic in Sydney Park tomorrow will mark the official launch of the new Adopt a Tree campaign to help save the park from WestCONnex destruction.

WESTCONNEX Action Group (WAG) has slammed the Baird government’s plan to start tunnelling works for the WestCONnex New M5 tollway at the St Peters interchange site next Wednesday, labelling the move “disgraceful” when so much of the project’s design and impact remain unknown.

PREMIER Mike Baird has finally agreed to meet with residents campaigning against WestCONnex after they staged a sit-in at NSW Parliament House this afternoon. 

RESIDENTS campaigning against WestCONnex are now staging a sit-in at NSW Parliament House to call on Premier Mike Baird to meet with the community, and to halt all work on the controversial toll road while a public inquiry into the tollway’s planning takes place.

A NEW exhibition at The Corner Gallery in Stanmore is now showcasing the beauty and importance of Sydney Park to highlight its planned destruction by WestCONnex, with an official reception with the artists to be held at 1pm on Saturday 12 November.

WESTCONNEX Action Group (WAG) has slammed the Baird government’s latest changes to the WestCONnex tollway, saying they expose the farcical planning process behind the $17 billion project.

A NEW exhibition at The Corner Gallery in Stanmore will showcase the beauty and importance of Sydney Park and its trees to highlight its planned destruction by WestCONnex.

THREE residents, including journalist and activist Wendy Bacon, were arrested by riot police in Newtown on Friday morning during a peaceful protest against drilling works for the unapproved third stage of the WestCONnex toll road. 

RESIDENTS will hold a silent vigil in St Peters at 9:30am today as 62-year-old Shelley Jensen is forced from her home for WestCONnex.