Dust clouds blowing up a storm in local parks

• READERS with asthma might need to avoid Camden’s parks this summer. Why? Because the council uses air-blowers to create dust clouds.

A friend sent me the this photo (above) from Waterlow Park last week. You can see the dust cloud centre left of the picture.

That park has a long-running air pollution problem from blowers used for no reason all year round.

On YouTube is a 2015 film Waterlow Blower Dust Harming Children. A Moorfields surgeon warns dust from the machines causes eye-injuries.

My friend who took the picture said: “I didn’t include people nearby in case they thought I was filming them. But the dust was going everywhere, over families, a woman with a buggy. Why was the man doing this?”

It happens any weekday of the year in Camden’s parks. Perhaps the council has forgotten the public can sue if injured?

There are some 4,000 London deaths from air pollution annually. Yet parks have the worst air thanks to pointless, modern machinery.

S McAUSLANE,
N6