Newsletter: 1) Public meeting 8th November, 2) Fundraising Meal 14th November 3) Court Hearing 29th November

 

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C/O 120 Blythswood Road Ilford IG3 8SG 2^nd November 2022

07956 263088 twitter: @andywalker1945 email: andy.walker@talk21.com

Dear Residents

Stop the Tesco Toxic Towers!

Fund raising meal on 14^th November at 7pm

Chapters restaurant on Goodmayes High Road

The Tesco Toxic Towers development is a risk to children’s health.  The school which is planned in the development faces the busy, high-polluting road.  The flats adjacent to the school have air quality filters planned to the seventh floor, but no filters are planned for the school. The school playground is on the roof, where, of course, no filters are available and exercise is a trigger for children suffering from asthma.  Our campaign aims to quash the planning application, with the help of Hodge Allen, the firm who represented the family of the late Ella Adoo-Kissi-Debrah, the first child to die of air pollution listed on her death certificate in the UK.  We now need to persuade the High Court to grant permission for hearing in the New Year. 

The meal at Chapters will help to raise funds for this.  The meal costs £10, with drinks extra.  Contact Andy for a ticket.

If you can donate £5 or more to the legal fund to Stop the Tesco Toxic Towers, please go to crowdjustice.com/case/stop-the-tesco-toxic-towers or scan 

Public Meeting Tuesday 8^th November 8pm Methodist Church Hall, Percy Road IG3 8UA

Stop the Tesco Toxic Towers

The main business is to make sure we fill the restaurant on the 14^th November

Another key item is to how best to persuade Sam Tarry MP to back the judicial review.

The campaign team went to 10 Downing Street on 31^st October to deliver a letter asking the Prime Minister to intervene. The photos are at blog, it was a cross party team with the Conservatives Keith Prince AM, Raj Forhad, Ashburn Holder of the Liberal Democrats and RoseMary Warrington from the Green Party. We also had Bob Archer, the secretary of Redbridge Trades Union Council in support and Sajida Ugradar from Redbridge Independents.

 

High Court Hearing on 29^th November 2022

We have an hour and half hearing at the High Court on the 29^th seeking permission for a full hearing in the new year. If you can be there, it will be much appreciated. Our barrister will claim community support for our campaign, so to make this claim credible it will be helpful to have support in person on the day.

Regards

 

Andy Walker