10 Downing Street Letter and Pics

Thank you very much to Keith Prince AM, Conservative Party, Bob Archer, Redbridge Trades Council, Ashburn Holder, Liberal Democrats, RoseMary Warrington, Green Party, Raj Forhad, Conservative Party. Sajida Ugradar, Redbridge Independents 

 

 

 

Dear Prime Minister

 

 We are concerned about new housing developments being built close to busy roads where the air is so toxic that mechanical ventilation has to be installed to make them habitable.

 

For example, a Tesco development High Rise site in Redbridge faces onto a High Road and has mechanical ventilation proposed to the seventh floor. (a)

 

It is baffling that the planned primary school at the planned development, which also faces the High Road, and next to proposed affordable housing, nevertheless does not have mechanical ventilation although it has a playground on the school roof below the seventh floor. (b)

 

Redbridge Council is refusing to allow any prospective affordable housing parents, whose children have asthma, the right to refuse living in mechanically ventilated flats without sanction. (c)

Exercise is a trigger for a asthma attack. (d)

This means parents whose children are asthma sufferers who overlook the school playground may be watching their children and fearing for their safety on high pollution days.

This is unacceptable and we ask to look into this development and at the very least recommend moving the school and affordable housing into an area at the site with lower pollution levels which do not need mechanical ventilation.

 

There should not be the need for legal action to remedy this obvious oversight which risks child health.

 

Yours sincerely

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

References below are taken from our legal bundle at https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XApPP-ffF-213VBPIR3ykCOQn_IrwpW6/view

(a) Planning condition 62 at page A431 of the bundle shows mechanical ventilation will installed to the seventh floor for flats facing the High Road.

(b) The school is shown at the picture above, it is clearly facing onto the High Road. It is taken from page A273 in the bundle. A429 shows ventilation at the school is a possible, not a definite.

(c) No such condition exists in the application

(d) https://www.asthma.org.uk/advice/triggers/pollution/ is a link on this evidence