Draft leaflet to go to print on 21st June 2022: Seeking comments from Labour before going to print

Comments from supporters welcome before we go to print. Labour will be sent a copy should they wish to comment. Especially regarding “The best way for the Council to provide local homes for residents on modest incomes is for the Council to buy homes for local people. The Council have started to do this per a Wanstead & Woodford press article dated 1^st February 2022 “Redbridge also spent £30million buying up 122 residential properties since 2019”

 

I am also seeking comments regarding page 46 of the planning document presented to Councillors about affordable housing. I can find no safeguards that affordable housing will part of the estate in perpetuity.

Hence my comment that:

After seeking clarification from the Council, there is no guarantee that the affordable flats at the proposed Tesco high rise will be for sale to anyone at some point in the future

 

If the Council will not provide an answer to this point, it might be best to say:

After making enquires the Council  have not responded to concerns about affordable flats at the proposed Tesco high rise being sold to anyone in the future.

 

 

Andy

 

 

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Stop the Tesco Toxic Towers! Kids Lives Matter!

Funding at

crowdjustice.com/case/stop-the-tesco-toxic-towers

Petition at

change.org/KidsLivesMatter

 

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stopthetescotoxictowers.blogspot.com

C/O 120 Blythswood Road

Seven Kings

IG3 8SG 07956 263088 email andy.walker@talk21.com twitter @andywalker

 

Dear Sir or Madam

We are a local community group opposed to the Tesco Toxic Towers because the development will be bad for the health of the people living in it and it will also damage the health of the existing residents due to the dust and congestion it will cause.

 

We have two methods for stopping the development:

1 – The legal campaign based on air pollution. There is more information on this at crowdjustice.com/case/stop-the-tesco-toxic-towers Your card will not be debited unless we hit our target of £5,000 by 16^th July at 4pm.

 2 – We also want to win at the court of public opinion. Academic research suggests living close to a busy road and or a noisy railway is likely to be bad for child health. Barking Havering & Redbridge University Hospitals Trust have supplied information about their catchment area having 55 child deaths in the last 3 years and hundreds of child hospital admissions. At time of writing they will not release the full postcodes so we cannot know how toxic it is for child health to build in the area between the railway and the high road. The petition calls for Redbridge Council to look into the child deaths linked to air pollution and for Sadiq Khan to commission a London wide study into child deaths as well. If the infill area is as toxic as we think it is it will put pressure on Tesco not to go ahead with the development. The petition is at change.org/KidsLivesMatter 1500 signatures means Andy gets 5 minutes to present the case at the Town Hall for the Council to commission a study and the Councillors to debate the issue for 15 minutes and make a decision.

The Labour Council argue that High Rise is necessary to provide local homes for local people. The argument does not stand scrutiny, the Tesco high rise being built in the area is part of a London Plan to increase the London population by 1 million in ten years. After seeking clarification from the Council, there is no guarantee that the affordable flats at the proposed Tesco high rise will be for sale to anyone at some point in the future. The best way for the Council to provide local homes for residents on modest incomes is for the Council to buy homes for local people. The Council have started to do this per a Wanstead & Woodford press article dated 1^st February 2022 “Redbridge also spent £30million buying up 122 residential properties since 2019”

 

Regards

 

Andy Walker