Legal Challenge is about integrity, not just air pollution

 Newsletter going out today below:

stopthetescotoxictowers.blogspot.com

120 Blythswood Road Ilford IG3 8SG                  8th July 2022

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

Dear Residents

The deception which happened on the night the Tesco Toxic Towers was passed deserves to be challenged!

The good news is I am delighted to say our legal team will lodge an application for judicial review at the High Court on Monday 11th. The bad news is that our legal costs will be around £20,000, and if we lose, I will be liable for at least £15K in costs. I will be fund raising on the Crowdfunder site on Monday after the application is lodged at:

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

Our pre-action letter is at a post on stopthetescotoxictowers.blogspot.comsite dated 28th June. One of the grounds relates to Cllr Athwal's promise to commission a cumulative air quality report for the Tesco, Homebase and Seven Kings Car Park sites at June and July 2020 Redbridge Cabinet meetings. The promised report was never published and these seven sites below were chosen instead for consideration for their cumulative impact - one of them is in Stratford!

1 - 902-910 Eastern Avenue, Newbury Park

2- 193-207 High Road Ilford

3 -Development above Exchange Car Park, Ilford

4 - 55 Roden Street (Sainsbury’s Supermarket) Ilford

5- 1-7 Station Road and 16-26 Cranbrook Road Ilford

6- 60-70 Roden Street Ilford

7 - Leyton Road, London E15 1DH

This means the Councillors were misled on the night when the issue of cumulative report came up. How can we judge if the Tesco development and others on the High Road present a threat to vulnerable residents' health when the promised study has not been done?

Regards

Andy Walker