We Can’t Breathe: Tempers Boil Over at Launders Lane Contamination Meeting.
On Tuesday evening at Rainham Library, Havering Council held a meeting to update local residents now that the land at Launders Lane has been officially deemed contaminated. The audience heard from Council Leader Ray Morgon, Chief Executive Andrew Blake Herbert, Public Health Director Mark Ansell Planning Director Helen Oakerbee. and a representative for the landowner. Residents listened to the work underway but what followed was an outpouring of deep frustration and despair.