Model letter to academic re environmental regulations request

Dear Academic

I am part of a team that has been campaigning against what campaigners call the Tesco Toxic Towers in Goodmayes for around 3 years. I believe that Ella Kissi-Debrah is not the only child to die of disease linked to air pollution.

To this end I have been trying to get access to my local NHS trust child death and hospital admission stats.

However, after going to the Upper Tribunal, it seems I had used the wrong regulations, I should have used environmental regulations based by upon the Aarhus Convention.

I am building support for a new environmental request and it seems helpful to have an academic on board to analyse the data if the request is eventually successful, which might take years to reach a conclusion.

The data I seek to be given to an academic (not to me as it is confidential) will be:

Dates of death or hospital admission

Full postcodes of child address

Disease

Should the request be successful, I would then ask an academic to correlate the data to high pollution days to discover if there is a significant correlation.

The London Mayor uses modelled data, which I argue is inadequate. Judgments and more information is at the website below.

Should the request be successful, I hope it will influence siting high rise towers by busy polluting roads and/or influence Councillors to ask for best quality air filters at such towers to mitigate against the health hazards.

 Regards

Andy Walker

120 Blythswood Road

Ilford IG3 8SG

stopthetescotoxictowers.blogspot.com/

07956 263088

@andywalker1945