Residents have just days to speak out against harmful road closures that will increase traffic and pollution at seven schools and seven nurseries.
If it goes ahead, Hackney Council's Walford Road closure scheme will tip three schools over the legal pollution limit, according to data contained in their CERC Air Quality and Traffic Model into the impacts of the scheme.
As well as displacing thousands of vehicles past street with a large amount of low cost and social housing, the councils own data shows the Walford Rd closures will:
- leave 3 schools illegally polluted (Grasmere, St Mary’s and Princess May)
- worsen pollution at 7 schools and 7 nurseries
- bring a 5% increase in NO2 at William Patten, a 4% increase at St Mary’s and a 3% increase at Grasmere.
- The air at these schools would have been getting cleaner because the buses have been retrofitted but the impact is so severe as to undo all the benefit of that and make the air dirtier than it was before.
- Church St, Albion Rd, Crossway, the High St and Matthias Rd are illegally polluted already. These are residential streets too and these plans will make it worse.
Please support other local families and protect young lungs by opposing the road closures now at bit.ly/n16schools
The deadline to respond is tomorrow and we urgently need parents to stand together to oppose this.
