The dash to build for London's homeless must not be at the expense of child health

I am contacting other elected representatives today to try and get more elected representatives to support the press release ahead of your hearing this Friday 16th December 2022 at 1:30pm .

Press Release

 The dash to build for London's homeless must not be at the expense of child health

We the undersigned welcome Keith Prince Conservative AM, Ashburn Holder, previous Liberal Democrat Parliamentary Candidate, RoseMary Warrington, previous Green Parliamentary Candidate and local residents attending 10 Downing Street to support a Judicial Review against a High Rise Development planned in Goodmayes East London. The letter delivered to the Prime Minister on the 31st October 2022 is at the end of this press release.

 We share the concerns expressed in the letter to the Prime Minister and hope that Tescos, Weston Homes and Redbridge Council will agree to move the school into the development where mechanical ventilation is not required to protect children against air pollution. END of press release

 Siân Berry Green GLA  member

Hina Bokhari Liberal Democrat GLA member

 The letter sent to the prime minister is below:

 “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 an 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.

 

Siân Berry Green GLA  member also says:

“I've opposed this scheme from the start and asked the Mayor to call it in because it is simply not providing the housing needed for local people. It is so important that the impact of the main roads surrounding this proposal is taken into account. Any changes made must protect children living in the area who will be impacted the most by toxic air, especially those from low income families.”