Resources

UPDATED - Remediating Gasworks: Protecting The Health and Wellbeing of Communities

by Gasworks Communities United

If you were unable to attend this event, a recording of the conference, chatbox transcript and PowerPoint presentations are available on the Gasworks Communities United website.

https://gasworkscommunities.co.uk/

The GCU is an alliance of communities affected by Berkeley Homes’s development of disused gasworks sites in the UK.

Find out more at https://gasworkscommunities.co.uk/

A pile of docs showing aspects of the Southall application and how it was dealt with. Take a look.

https://www.london.gov.uk/about-us/governance-and-spending/sharing-our-information/freedom-information/foi-disclosure-log/eir-southall-gas-works-site

Leabridge is the site of another Berkeley Homes project for which they have already applied for planning permission.

See the website of Leabridge’s protest group `Community before Construction' at https://cbc-leabridge.co.uk/

Substances released at Southall gasworks site are 'threat to health'

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/uk-england-london-51006391

Londoners claim toxic air from gasworks damaging their health

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/aug/27/londoners-claim-toxic-air-from-gasworks-damaging-their-health

Residents prepare court challenge over redevelopment of gasworks site

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/jul/07/court-challenge-homes-southall-london-gasworks-brownfield-development

(BHCC) Environmental Impact Assessments inc. screening opinions.

At the link below you will find the EIA for the Brighton Gasworks along with the screening opinion.

https://www.brighton-hove.gov.uk/content/planning/planning-applications/environmental-impact-assessments

B&H City Plan Part 1 (March 2016)

https://www.brighton-hove.gov.uk/sites/brighton-hove.gov.uk/files/FINAL%20version%20cityplan%20March%202016compreswith%20forward_0.pdf

B&H City Plan Part 2 (April 2020)

https://www.brighton-hove.gov.uk/sites/brighton-hove.gov.uk/files/Proposed%20Submission%20City%20Plan%20Part%20Two%20April%2025%202020%20PRINTERSa.pdf

The Environment Agency has expressed concern about the effect of this development on groundwater

you will find a copy of their letter to Stella Creasey, MP for the area, at http://clementina.dan-webb.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/EA-response.pdf

B&H Authority Monitoring Report

Development Area 2 - Brighton Marina, Brighton Gasworks & Black Rock Area https://www.brighton-hove.gov.uk/sites/brighton-hove.gov.uk/files/Final%20AMR%20Appendices%20201718.pdf

Have high-rises ever been the answer to our housing woes?

https://www.historyextra.com/period/20th-century/have-high-rises-ever-been-the-answer-to-our-housing-woes/

Land remediation: Bringing brownfield sites back to use

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/land-remediation-bringing-brownfield-sites-back-to-use/land-remediation-bringing-brownfield-sites-back-to-use

Sitting on a toxic time bomb...

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg13518342-700/

Locals fear health risk of gasworks development

http://walthamforestecho.co.uk/locals-fear-health-risk-of-gasworks-development/

Fatcat developers created our housing crisis. Here's how to stop them

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2020/apr/30/fatcat-developers-created-our-housing-crisis-heres-how-to-stop-them

Considerate Constructors Scheme - Spotlight on air polution

https://ccsbestpractice.org.uk/spotlight-on/spotlight-on-air-pollution/#Introduction