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Dear Dr Jackie ChinI have heard there is a call for a Public Health Enquiry into the Horn Lane Industrial site, W3. I would like to add my name in support of this request. The levels from the Horn Lane pollution monitoring system are alarming.With all the proposed building work and increase in housing, especially the proposal for Friary Park, the increase population at North Acton by many thousands.I would also like to say that when I walk over AML Bridge and along past the entrance to the goods yard the dust can plainly be seen in goods yard entrance and on Horn Lane and when a bus drives past the down draught raises a cloud of dust behind it on dry days.Photo’s taken between April and October 2015 of road colouring.Spread sheet showing hourly Peaks from 2014.The road is coloured white travelling towards A40 north bound and not so bad south bound.This road is being polluted every working day by Dust from this site and I think the stats prove this, I would like to point out that if you or I dropped a piece of litter we would be fined but not the polluters from this site.Then as I walk past the Refuse Transfer Station of J Simpsons Skips I see a huge mound of refuse piled high in the open I believe it could be as much as 100 Tonnes being sorted with a dust plume coming off it, seems strange this is allowed in the open because the trucks arriving and leaving are compelled to be covered over.Standing at the bus stop is not a pleasant experience as the bus pulls up and dust comes around your face choking you, why do mothers and children and elderly or anyone for that matter have to endure this harming effect their health.I am also aware that employees of company's on aggregates,cement and recycling plant have annual medical checks which the general public around do not know about or have access to. On the Air Quality web site a traffic light warning system is published to warn vulnerable people and the community at large about the effects of pollution in this area but where is it published in Horn Lane.Acton W3 6JJMob 077776975629 AttachmentsPreview attachment WP_20150424_003.jpg[Image]Preview attachment WP_20150424_004.jpg[Image]Preview attachment IMG_1467.JPG[Image]Preview attachment WP_20150618_001.jpg[Image]Preview attachment WP_20151002_002.jpg[Image]Preview attachment WP_20151002_003.jpg[Image]Preview attachment WP_20151002_004.jpg[Image]Preview attachment 2014 to 2015 Hourly LaqnData.xlsx[Excel]Preview attachment Hourly Peaks May to October 2015.docx[Word]mairelowe

Maire Lowe ● 3981d

If there's filth on the windows, one can bet it's also in the air we breath. Letter sent to Dr Chin, as below.Dear Dr ChinI understand that you are considering setting up a Public Health Enquiry into the effects of the Horn Lane Industrial Estate Pollution.I have lived in the West Acton area for about 12 years. I’m fortunate to be in good health and live far enough away from the estate that I do not feel that my health is affected. However, I know from the layer of dust that generally settles on my car during the week (something I have not experience anywhere else) that the area must be a particularly trying one for any person with an existing breathing difficulty.The filth and pollution spewing daily from this Estate are long known and proven. For the last three years I’ve chaired a regular liaison meeting between residents and the businesses on the estate, at which officers from Ealing Council and the Environment Agency have also been present. Whilst some improvements have been made, PM10 dust levels are still at unacceptable levels, breaching EU thresholds every year. Each potential improvement is followed by some set back, for example the reduction in the tonnage processed over the last three years at the waste transfer plant has been undermined by the massive expansion of operations at the concrete plant. Studies have been undertaken and monitoring equipment installed at various locations on the estate but it has not proved possible to pin down the relative contribution of each business to the problem. I believe a Public Health Enquiry would massively focus the minds of all those with an interest or responsibility for the estate, with consequent real improvements to the health of residents in the area. I’d be happy to assist with providing any background information to such work.

Vlod Barchuk ● 3989d

I believe that there is a Public Health Enquiry to be held regarding the profound effects from the Horn Lane Industrial Estate Pollution, or at least such an Enquiry is being considered.I wish to notify you of my wholehearted support for such a Public Health Enquiry and request that it be held urgently, ASAP.The filth & pollution spewing daily from this Estate are long known & proven and must be stopped now.The current Administration at Ealing Borough Council and their Planning and Environment Officers consistently argue that the firms within this Estate have been there many years and have some sort of "established use." This is an unacceptable argument and incorrect, I would put forward that residential housing was in the area before the railway sidings, let alone the huge unfettered polluting expansion on the Estate which LBE has allowed to continue unabated ever since and up until this date.Also, under such stupid justification, we would still legally have plague pits dotted around Central London - because they're "established"!At the very least the new Hanson Concrete Plant should never have been given planning permission with its extremely close polluting (air and noise) proximity to residences. This entire Horn Lane Industrial Estate must be closed down ASAP and put to better community beneficial use and I respectfully request that the Public Health Enquiry proceeds at haste.There are too many fragile & vulnerable young lungs in the immediate area these days for this polluting Estate to be tolerated a minute longer.Please keep me informed on what is happening and I thank you in advance for your assistance and co-operation in this seriously important matter.I'm in favour of the investigation and enquiry into the Horn Lane Industrial Site.  For many years it has been a blight on our lives, and causing severe health problems, including respiratory and cardiac disease.  Also a cause of premature death by this vile pollution that we have to breath on a daily basis.I seem to spend more of my time in A&E being stabilised for severe respiratory disease, which I attribute to the pollution from the industrial site.I cannot open a window without finding grey dust covering shiny surfaces, which I am forced to breath in.  My and other peoples health is more important than that vile Hansons Cement Batching Plant, which by the way, was granted on retrospective planning permission after they expanded,  What a farce.  I know who to blame, such as, a local councillor for east Acton and LBE planning.Further, the loss of the A&E at Central Middlesex Hospital, is the biggest disaster to befall the people of Acton.  The hospital was six minutes away, and had a state of the art respiratory facility, which we have now lost.  We now have to go to Charing Cross, Which has to rely on portable nebulisers and/or air cylinders to administer vital medication. Not happy.  Lives are going to be lost due to the industrial site and the loss of a vital A&E.Prednisolone is the steroid which has some delayed side effects, such as, reducing bone density and weakening the legs.  It can also make a person feel ill.  Steroid is also in such meds as Symbicort and Seratide.which are given for Asthma and Emphysema.  The preferred antibiotic is Doxycycline 100mg taken once daily, but 200mg on day one.  If Amoxicillin is given, it is usually backed up with Clarithromycin.  With the latter if a patient is on Statins, it has to be stopped while on Clarithromycin.Please close the industrial site and let us live.

Ewan Howard ● 3990d