2nd Bexley incinerator given green light by Secretary of State.

It is Unfair Irrational Irresponsible and Unreasonable!                     The clock is ticking we had 12 weeks only to protest (from 9th April.)                                                                                                  Please write to  Sadiq Khan, the Mayor of London (called the 'Clean Air Mayor by the Evening Standard',) to call for an urgent judicial review of the decision - https://www.london.gov.uk/contact-us-form           Londoners please alert your GLA representatives  https://www.london.gov.uk/people/assembly/                                     Bexley and Bromley=  Gareth Bacon MP gareth.bacon@london.gov.uk Greenwich and Lewisham = Len Duvall OBE len.duvall@london.gov.uk

Unfair: The timing of the decision during this period of national crisis is cause for concern as normal communication are in lockdown and the general public have scant opportunity to respond.

Irrational: The introduction of incineration is counter to environmental policy to maximise recycling and reduce global warming.
(MPs Westminster Hall debates in January and February showed overall there is already sufficient incinerator capacity in England. Recommissioning at Edmonton and the projected Staines incinerator could add further to overcapacity in the industry.)

Irresponsible; To introduce a second incinerator without adequate evidence from the effects of the existing Belvedere incinerator. Downwind boroughs, Bexley and Barking/Dagenham are deficient of pollution monitors. Bexley may have only 2 traffic pollution monitors, compared to Greenwich Borough's 11 roadside monitors. (The nearest Council monitor for the A206 dual carriageway at Northend Road, with its regular traffic delays and tailbacks, is situated in a side road at Whitehall Lane.)

Unreasonable - We already have a large urban population, a polluting incinerator and many thousands of new homes being planned without any new road networks. This will add even further to local pollution levels.                                                                                                           Other pollution affecting local residents has not been taken into account. 

1.  City Airport - (this airport is under 5 miles from the incinerator site:) propose to increase daily flight capacity; so generating more pollution when aircraft are taking off,  landing or flying low on approach.  Some Army helicopters are also in use at the local, Woolwich barracks 5 miles distant. A Heathrow airport pollution study led by Dr Ioar Rivas, at Kings College, found pollution reaching London, 50 miles away .”Cities around Europe have policies to reduce airborne particles from traffic, but aircraft emissions are not being reported in the same way.”

2.   Heavy traffic concentrated on the A206; (near to the incinerator site,) in the North of Bexley  adds to particulate pollution from tyre and brake dust, as well as the better known air pollutant nitrogen dioxide, which comes from vehicle traffic and power plants . In wet weather traffic dust runs off into local water courses. The 'Outer London Road run off study' showed a mix of particulates and chemical contamination in water courses; including results from testing points listed in Bexley.
There is a lack of detailed traffic pollution data for Bexley with very few traffic monitors, compared to the adjacent Greenwich borough with 11 roadside monitors. (The nearest monitor for the A206 dual carriageway at Northend with its regular traffic delays and tailbacks is situated in a side road at Whitehall Lane.)

The site www.breathelondon.org gives a map of all the pollution monitoring sites in Greater London.