Rainham Against Pollution
About us
Rainham Against Pollution is a local community pressure group created arising from a public meeting attended by approximately 200 local residents in the summer of 2022, in response to the continual poor air quality in the area, predominantly arising from continual fires (still not fully extinguished) within the illegal landfill of a gravel extraction site. The exact nature of what is burning underground is currently unknown. This site is surrounded by residential properties to the east and north, a golf course to the west and the village of Wennington and A13 road to the south. Rainham, in the south of the London Borough of Havering has historically suffered from poor air quality from various sources and from its geographical location. The continual smoke and fumes from the landfill site in 2022 (The Fire Brigade have attended the site over 80 times in the last two years) causing health issues and a generally unpleasant environment for local residents brought things to a head. Rainham Against Pollution are working to improve air quality for local residents and users of the golf course, currently focusing primarily on holding the relevant authorities to account and campaigning for short and long term solutions to this major source of local air pollution which comes on top of the wider air pollution issues of Greater London.
“Having our own Air Quality Monitor (Node) will, in conjunction with the Breathe Nodes across the local region, enable Rainham Against Pollution to obtain objective data to support what we already know at an anecdotal level, that the current levels of air pollution are having a deleterious effect upon the health and well-being of local residents. We hope to use this data in support of our objective in getting the necessary actions put in place to reduce and eliminate local air pollution at source”