Residents prepare court challenge over redevelopment of London gasworks site
Residents are preparing a legal challenge to the redevelopment of a former gasworks in Southall, west London. The move follows two years of complaints to Ealing council, developers the Berkeley Group and environmental regulators that a petrol-like odour from the site is making them ill and putting children's lives at risk.
"The campaign group has become increasingly frustrated by the abject failure of Berkeley adequately to respond to legitimate grievances," said Jo Sidhu QC. "We now have no choice but to instigate legal action to hold them accountable for the damage they have done to the health of local residents. People are suffering serious and chronic illnesses relating to the toxic pollution released by the land being used by the developers."
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