Air Pollution in Rottingdean to be looked into by council
On Friday Brighton and Hove City Council had a full meeting to discuss a variety of pressing issues.
One of these was the chronic levels of air pollution in Rottingdean
Latest TV’s Mhairi Beveridge was at the meeting and can tell us more…
I live in Rottingdean, work from home here and I have just returned from walking my three children to school at St Margarets, the local CofE Primary School.
I am not against sensible development, neither am I a NIMBY – I know it needs to be done to ease the housing shortage. However, every day I walk my children down Falmer Road to school where we can barely hear each other speak due to the traffic noise. As I live on Falmer Road I also worry about the amount of air pollution – particularly in light of recent reports that UK air pollution is linked to 40,000 early deaths a year. My family live with Rottingdean’s chronic noise and air pollution on a daily basis – and what is worse, my primary age children and hundreds of others like them have no choice but to walk through it every single school day.
Rottingdean and the surrounding area, with it’s narrow village roads, schools and physical pinch points is wholly unsuitable for further development. It already has major commuter rat-run problems with the High Street congested with traffic from morning till night. Buses and lorries can barely fit through which often leads to tailbacks way up Falmer Road particularly at evening rush hour. The daily tailbacks on the coast road often back up to Roedean school.
Please just come and witness all this for yourself!
I think even at current traffic levels, infrastructure planning is sorely needed. Any more development can only exacerbate an already intolerable situation for the village and it’s inhabitants.
Please everyone, reject all future development proposals until major infrastructure plans are in place first.
Many Thanks