1) Sadiq Khan passes the Tesco Toxic Towers 2) Next steps in campaign 3) Letter to Michael Gove

1) Sadiq Khan passes the Tesco Toxic Towers

 Sadiq Khan passed the Tesco Toxic Towers yesterday. The GLA documents are HERE and HERE

 2) Next steps in campaign

I am suggesting a photo shoot on Sunday 20th March outside the Tesco store for 5:30pm. This is when the store is shut so we should get permission. Providing there is support I will order a banner saying Michael Gove stop the Tesco Toxic Towers. Again if there is support I can do leaflets promoting the photo shoot for the stations, schools etc for the week before the photo shoot. 

3) My letter to Michael Gove is as follows:

Dear  Michael Gove

Goodmayes Homebase and Tesco developments.

Both of the these developments have recently passed by Sadiq Khan. Both of the developments have air quality filters to mitigate against their toxic location by a busy road. 

The developments are part of London Plan for a large increase in the London population with many developments by busy roads. The White Horse pub, Bodgers Tower and Seven Kings Park are some of these developments which are planned.

The Mayor relies upon modelling as set out at page 3 of a London University Report of May 2022 at Imperial to assess risk of air pollution to residents. The report says Asthma deaths are rare at page 17, but without quantifying the numbers. 

The Mayor should have quantified the number of of all deaths linked to air pollution and there locations in order to judge if living close to a busy leads to a significantly higher risk of death.

I provided the Mayor with statistics from BHRUT, the local NHS trust showing 38 child deaths linked in total in the year before lockdown and 14 child deaths in year after. This is correlation not causation, but it is enough to justify further study & grounds for calling in the developments which includes a school. Full postcodes need to provided to see if there is a link between living by roads.

To extrapolate these figures across London it appears likely that there are over 100 child deaths a year linked to air pollution and thousands of hospital admissions linked to air pollution

NICE QS 181 says developers should not build schools by busy roads. Developers ignore this guidance and so appear to put children at risk. I encourage you to call in this application and conduct a study based on real deaths and hospital admissions by full postcodes not the modelled version chosen by the GLA.

The costs of such a study are proportionate when compared to the NHS paying more than £1m per child for the genetic therapy for seriously ill children and the costs of vaccinating children against coronavirus.

Regards

Andy Walker