Local residents are horrified about the Council’s Planning Committee decision to agree the development of the old gas works site in Perth Road Leyton (for full information go to  (https://CBC-leabridge.co.uk).  The gas works land is full of dangerous toxic chemicals which not only get into the air but can contaminate the ground water. The developers, Berkeley Group, have a history of causing nearby residents serious health problems from their previous gas works development in Southall.

The gas works contamination threatens not only local residents but the children and families who use the adjacent Jubilee Park and the children of five schools in the area – Lammas, Willow Brook, Riverley, St Josephs and Sybourn.

A petition of over a thousand signatures objected to the plans and local residents argued at the committee that the plans should be rejected, but the voices of local people who live in the area were ignored.  They were shocked as all the Councillors overruled residents’ objections and voted in favour for the plans.  So much for listening to local people!

Lib Dem campaigner Bob Sullivan, who observed the committee on the internet, was astonished by the response of Councillors who knowing the history of the Berkerley Group gas works development in Southall, where residents had, and still are, suffering from major health problems still went ahead and voted for the toxic plans.

Bob says:  Please sign the petition below which now calls on London Mayor Sadiq Khan to reject the planning application. 

https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/stop-the-toxic-lea-bridge-gas-works-development