Legal Campaign launched today on National Clean Air Today to stop the Tesco Toxic Towers

 

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120 Blythswood Road Ilford IG3 8SG                16^th June 2022

07956 263088 twitter @andywalker email andy.walker@talk21.com

Dear Residents

Public Meeting Monday 20^th June 8pm: Methodist Church Hall Percy Road IG3 8UA

Support the Legal Challenge to the Tesco Toxic Towers!

The fundraising website starts today at 4pm to challenge the Tesco Toxic Towers at court. The campaign team have instructed Hodge Jones & Allen to represent our campaign. We have chosen Hodge Jones Allen because of their work in the Ella Kissi-Debrah case. Ella was the first child in England to have air pollution listed as contributory factor on her death certificate.

Today is National Clean Air day more at www.actionforcleanair.org.uk/schools Air pollution will be the focus of the challenge.

Not only do we want to win at court, we also want to win at the court of public opinion. The aim is to go to 10 Downing Street on the issue to deliver a letter in order to help build a consensus that it is wrong to build in an environment suffering from both air and noise pollution. Any contribution you can make to the campaign will be much appreciated from 4pm today at:

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

All monies raised go directly to the lawyers not me.

The meeting will also be on zoom

Meeting ID: 854 3305 0918 Passcode: 760276

However, the reception is not great, so zoom coverage might be a bit hit and miss. When we have 5G in IG3 it should be better.

Regards

Andy Walker

PS The petition over is another example of how we can win at the court of public opinion. Should the Council carry out a study into child deaths linked to air pollution, it is almost certain to find a correlation between child death, high pollution periods and living close to roads. The petition is also on line at change.org/KidsLivesMatter 1,500 signatures means a debate at the Town Hall which gives Councillors an opportunity to order the study. I would be grateful if you could return the sheet to me.

Kids live matter!

 

"We the undersigned who live or work in Redbridge note that:

 

Barking, Havering & Redbridge University Hospitals Trust have reported 55 child deaths at King George and Queens hospitals linked to air pollution for a three year period ending March 2022. The trust will not release the full postcodes of the dead children so we cannot tell if living close to a road is a factor in these deaths. And asks:

 

1 Redbridge Council to investigate these deaths to discover if living close to a busy road is a factor in these deaths.

2 Write to Sadiq Khan, the London Mayor requesting a London wide study of child deaths linked to air pollution takes place.

 

The petitioners would welcome the proposed two studies above to allow policy makers and the public to be informed about the risks of building housing close to roads.

 

Name                                 Address                                                          Signature

P&& A Walker 120 Blythswood Road IG3 8SG