Do you live near the Launders Lane landfill site? We want to hear from you.
By Ruth Kettle-Frisby – Guest Writer and Community Activist
Ruth is passionate about fostering positive change within the local community and regularly contributes insights and stories to The Havering Daily.
SHAPE Institute for Health at Queen Mary University of London is working with local MP Margaret Mullane and local campaigners Shaun Newton and myself, to document the real-life impacts of living with the frequent fires on the Launders lane landfill site.
It is clear from public meetings and countless pleas from Rainham residents that there’s a significant disconnect between official standards used to measure the risk of harm from air pollution from the fires and people’s actual experiences.
This then creates a further gap between what people are experiencing and what is formally recorded and validated.
We want to help residents to capture their experiences of living through this unacceptable and dangerous environmental health risk to create evidence and data.
This will enable these lived experiences which will be understood, taken seriously, and will help inform practical solutions and decisions that affect the area.
Our aim is to help build trust and gain accountability, and safer, healthier neighbourhoods for everyone.
Together, we will co-design ways to monitor and respond to how this environmental hazard disrupts the physical health, mental wellbeing, and day-to-day life of local residents.
We welcome affected residents at our “Coffee Morning Pop-up clinics”, which will run on Monday 23rd March and Friday 27th March (details below).
Residents will have the opportunity to meet members of our team from different departments of Queen Mary University of London including:
* Medicine
* Law
* Geography
* Economics
* Arts.
Queen Mary’s would also like to offer a £15 gift card to all residents (over 18) who attend and participate to cover the cost of your time.
Numbers may have to be limited on a first come, first serve basis if numbers exceed the venue’s capacity.
Details are as follows:
Date: Monday 23rd March
Time: 10am-11.30am
Location: Rainham Hall, The Broadway, Rainham RM13 9YN
Please use this link to sign up by completing the short form:
https://forms.cloud.microsoft/e/ETpAJbZxqH?origin=lprLink
Date: Friday 27th March
Time: 10.15am – 12.45pm
Location: Rainham Hall, The Broadway, Rainham RM13 9YN
Please use this link to sign up by completing the short form:
https://forms.cloud.microsoft/e/YxedtHCNBm?origin=lprLink
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