• THE Swiss Cottage area which covers the local educational academy and special needs schools is a highly polluted area documented by the “air pollution watch group” at King’s College and Greenwich universities.

Tenants and residents of the Adelaide Road, especially on the Chalcots estate, will testify and report how the air, as well as noise, pollution has increased dramatically over the last few years.

Air pollution, due mainly to diesel fumes, car exhaust fumes and building works’ dust from constant refurbishment and development, causes tenants to have to remove dirt and dust and grime from surfaces in their flats and homes that blows in through their windows (keeping windows closed is not an option because of condensation, lack of air flow, and stuffiness in poorly-built concrete flats).

Every two days I have to wash the grime and dirt particles off my only plant’s leaves in my flat. The plant absorbs the carbon dioxide from the air but it is blocked from producing oxygen because the broad plant leaves are covered by a film of dirt that, if left, would suffocate the plant and cause it to die, unless cleaned of dirt every two days.

How much more devastation is this noxious miasma of dust particles doing to the lungs of small children who daily frequent the playground in front of Burnham Tower on Adelaide Road?

There are playgrounds on the less polluted, quieter, roads at Bray on the Fellows Road, Taplow (hidden at the rear on Winchester Road), Winchester Square, Primrose Hill and on Parliament Hill and Hampstead Heath, to mention a few.

Burnham playground on the Adelaide Road is a polluted death trap for children. The council are so short of money. Convert it into a storage facility, let out to private companies, and move the playground to a secluded, non-polluted green patch in the area.

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