You are probably going to find my comment unhelpful, but I am genuinely trying to understand. I once lived in East Sheen directly on the A205. I had just moved to London, moved in with a Uni mate. I then moved to battersea where I lived on the A3021. My biggest hate was the road noise, but maybe I wasn’t really aware of the pollution; your point. Why does one live on an ‘A’ road and then complain about pollution. I guess its a bit like buy a house directly under the Heathrow flight path and then complain to shut it down. I will not have the right date, but A roads come from the 1960’s, they are not new. I often argue Streatham High Road can’t really be A23 London to Brighton and a shopping high-street, it can only be one or the other. I guess should your road be a neighbourhood or an A roads; and assuming it a neighbourhood, where do we move the A roads to? And why then based on residents reporting to their councils and air pollution are we building new houses against the A3, and the M4 (Swindon and Reading) examples. Why are we not insisting on a 500m wide corridor planted with trees before a single new home can be considered? You mentioned your community, have any installed a MHVR system to filter out the air pollution, and is there any data on internal air quality? AirAware published a great article about internal air quality recently; not had a chance to comment. AirAware know that I believe, based on limited data,
that I think the biggest contributor to air pollution is our internal environment. I have air quality sensors in my Brixton home and even with the windows open the air quality is much better than when we seal the windows shut.
Thanks Will! I guess the main thing is whether people always have a choice - presumably house prices reflect the lower quality environment, so those with less money have less choice. Very much agree with your thought on new houses but there are huge numbers of people for whom such infrastructure changes are hard to envisage. I remember very clearly listening to another AQ campaigner from east london saying she knew the indoor pollution was bad for her children (to your last point) but what could she do as opening the windows would be opening to potentially worse pollution outside. I will also highlight to Marta and Henrietta in case they want to add.
You are probably going to find my comment unhelpful, but I am genuinely trying to understand. I once lived in East Sheen directly on the A205. I had just moved to London, moved in with a Uni mate. I then moved to battersea where I lived on the A3021. My biggest hate was the road noise, but maybe I wasn’t really aware of the pollution; your point. Why does one live on an ‘A’ road and then complain about pollution. I guess its a bit like buy a house directly under the Heathrow flight path and then complain to shut it down. I will not have the right date, but A roads come from the 1960’s, they are not new. I often argue Streatham High Road can’t really be A23 London to Brighton and a shopping high-street, it can only be one or the other. I guess should your road be a neighbourhood or an A roads; and assuming it a neighbourhood, where do we move the A roads to? And why then based on residents reporting to their councils and air pollution are we building new houses against the A3, and the M4 (Swindon and Reading) examples. Why are we not insisting on a 500m wide corridor planted with trees before a single new home can be considered? You mentioned your community, have any installed a MHVR system to filter out the air pollution, and is there any data on internal air quality? AirAware published a great article about internal air quality recently; not had a chance to comment. AirAware know that I believe, based on limited data,
that I think the biggest contributor to air pollution is our internal environment. I have air quality sensors in my Brixton home and even with the windows open the air quality is much better than when we seal the windows shut.
Thanks Will! I guess the main thing is whether people always have a choice - presumably house prices reflect the lower quality environment, so those with less money have less choice. Very much agree with your thought on new houses but there are huge numbers of people for whom such infrastructure changes are hard to envisage. I remember very clearly listening to another AQ campaigner from east london saying she knew the indoor pollution was bad for her children (to your last point) but what could she do as opening the windows would be opening to potentially worse pollution outside. I will also highlight to Marta and Henrietta in case they want to add.