Just had a response to my e-mail to Angie Bray, which is as follows:Dear Nikki,Thank you for your email to Angie and for taking the time to get in touch on this issue. It’s been an issue Angie has campaigned hard on both before and indeed since becoming the MP for the area. You might be interested to read the text from the adjournment debate Angie did in Parliament specifically on this subject – you can read it using this link http://www.theyworkforyou.com/whall/?id=2010-12-15a.291.0&s=horn+lane+speaker%3A24952#g291.1 That should give you a flavour of where Angie stands/what the situation is. It has progressed a fair bit since then, mainly due to the good work of a local group set up by residents equally as concerned/annoyed as you, called SHLAP (Stop Horn Lane Pollution). We meet with SHLAP, the Environment Agency and Ealing Council fairly regularly to discuss the issue and to try and get more done to ease/hopefully at some point put a stop to the problems there. I’ve copied in Rosco White, who heads up the SHLAP operation and who I know would be pleased to hear from you – he’ll be able to give you the most up-to-date analysis of where we are with this. I hope that’s helpful. Best wishes, Hugo Hugo SutherlandResearcher to Angie Bray MPFrom the link....part of: Angie Bray (Ealing Central and Acton, Conservative)It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Benton. The Horn lane industrial site sits on a busy single carriageway in my constituency, connecting the Uxbridge road with the north of the constituency, which is home to the Park Royal industrial and business park and through which runs the A40. The purpose of bringing that part of the world to your attention is to highlight a long-standing problem that shows no signs of abating: the unacceptable pollution levels emanating from the Horn lane industrial site and the palpable failure of any agency to enforce legal pollution limits in the area.It is local residents who have really upped the ante on the issue by putting it firmly on the agenda and starting to campaign for genuine action and, hopefully, an end to the pollution plight that menaces their daily lives. Ably led by a former Acton Central councillor, VIod Barchuk, and local activist, Rosco White, SHLAP-Stop Horn Lane Pollution-has attracted considerable support from a community that, understandably, wants to hear less about monitoring pollution levels and more about active policing and enforcement.Having consulted the Environment Agency and corresponded with the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs on the matter, I am still a little unclear on how best to move forward and achieve genuine action on the matter. The site is the problem, because it sits uncomfortably, slap bang in the middle of a large residential community. It is surrounded on three sides by residential properties that are supported by a parade of shops and local businesses, all directly alongside the industrial site. Despite living and working along a busy road, a real sense of community exists among local residents, who feel that they are living in an area with great potential and already benefit from Acton's excellent transport links and the easy access it offers to central London.That ease of access makes it obvious why Horn lane was chosen to house an industrial site in the first place. It has first-rate rail links and is right on the doorstep of the Park Royal estate. The A40 is to the north and the Uxbridge road is to the south. That made sense in the past, when Horn lane was home to factories, rather than flats and houses as it is now. It must seem odd to those who work on the site that they drive their lorries, unload their skips and transfer their waste right in the heart of a residential community. To local residents, it is ridiculous that their quality of life is being impaired by that throwback, which produces literally sky-high levels of pollution.
Nicola Howard ● 5223d