Newsletter to Barley Lane parents

 

stopthetescotoxictowers.blogspot.com

120 Blythswood Road

IG3 8SG

07956 263088 andy.walker@talk21.com @andywalker1945

 

Dear Barley Lane Primary Parents                                                        17th September 2020

 

Stop the Tesco Toxic Towers Campaign news

 

The threat to the health and well being of our community has been ramped up recently with further developments planned at the Homebase site and the Seven Kings Car park.

 

The help of your school governing body would be very helpful. Local schools have been written to by the Council seeking their views on the Tesco Development. The local NHS have provided statistics published at the above site showing an increase in child hospital admissions being linked to living by roads. Redbridge Council accept the evidence linking traffic pollution to child ill health and have closed roads by schools and taken other measures to reduce traffic pollution to children.

 

No school appears to have written to the Council about the Tesco development. This is not surprising given the Coronavirus emergency. However, the views of your governing body could be crucial in deciding in Councillors voting against the development. I have written to local schools requesting they disclose how many children have asthma inhalers at their schools. The expectation is that the number of children will be higher at local schools than other schools away from roads. Any such evidence appears helpful to the argument the pollution load locally is already damaging child health and the three developments must not go ahead.

 

It is important to hope for the best and that these developments are stopped. However, the school with the worst child asthma health will have an argument for the daily construction  HGVs to avoid their school in an effort to mitigate against some of the damage the proposed development will do if it goes ahead.

 

I would be grateful if you could contact your headteacher to request your governing body place the Tesco development on the agenda for the next governing body agenda. The Council will accept late submissions before the planning committee meets. This campaign can be won, Councillors in Barnes voted against a Tesco Tower earlier this year.

 

Zoom campaign meeting: Tonight Thursday 17^th September 8pm

 

The campaign team meet tonight, if you would like to hear more about how we can build the campaign go to

 

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89702684385

 

Meeting ID: 897 0268 4385 (no password)

 

A copy of this newsletter is available at the site above to share.

 

Regards  

 

Andy Walker