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David Marsden
@DvdMrsdn
Digging the dirt, uncovering the truth
Aug 7, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
The data I looked at (Source: GLA Demography 2020-based Population Projections: apps.london.gov.uk/population-pro…), projects for 2041 in Southall Green, a big increase in the population of young adults, as well as over-50s (including over 75s), a smaller increase in number of children. x.com/DvdMrsdn/statu… We know that there will be tens of thousands of new residents living in all the new tower blocks that are being built (assuming they are all occupied).

Aug 23, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Who knew?



@CASHcampaigners @TimWebb50132523 @aracelicamargo_ assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/upl…Image
Image I wonder how inequalities were included in planning processes in Southall?

@DrAyshaRaza? @jkblacker? Image
Jul 10, 2022 • 12 tweets • 2 min read
Weasel words from Ealing Labour Council, who for six years have shown utter contempt for the health and wellbeing of Southall's schoolchildren forced to live in the toxic stink created by Berkeley Group's unsafe development of the old Gasworks site. 1/11

aroundealing.com/news/240000-in… Take Blair Peach Primary School, adjacent to the highly contaminated old Gasworks site in Southall.

In 2016, Ealing Labour Council removed a functioning air quality monitor from the school grounds.

2/11
Apr 1, 2022 • 12 tweets • 4 min read
It is April Fool's Day today, of course.

What better day to unmask the real "Peter Mason" who has been fooling Ealing voters since 2009 with his fakeness and lack of openness about his own personal story and political history?

Will the real "Peter Mason" stand up? Image Not for the first time, in last night's public election hustings, "Peter Mason" smeared local opposition to him and his toxic brand of politics claiming that it was mostly personal vindictiveness and that he asked that his mother and 'estranged father' be left out of it. Image
Mar 25, 2022 • 13 tweets • 9 min read
Who wants to know more about how, twelve years ago, an exclusive group of rich, mostly white, middle aged men in suits planned to take advantage of the financial crash and austerity politics to sell Ealing's public land and buildings for profit like they were playing monopoly? ImageImageImageImage A few familiar and influential names including, of course, the late Tony Pidgley of Berkeley Group and Southall Gasworks infamy.

A five year plan to sell off our public assets for £20m profit.

Not a single one of these men was elected to do so. ImageImageImageImage
Mar 19, 2022 • 20 tweets • 9 min read
Is anyone interested in seeing a selection of leaked WhatsApp group messages from some Ealing Labour councillors?

An inside look at what they really think about Bell, Mason, Sharma?

The institutional bullying and corruption they kept quiet for years?

#EalingLabourLeaks A couple things before I get started.

My source has obviously said that it's ok to publish these.

I've edited the screenshots to remove some names. I don't want to embarrass people unnecessarily, or make them feel like they are being attacked.

Focus is on Labour leadership.
Sep 16, 2021 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Environmental report from 2006 that we paid for when we bought our home.

200m to the north is the highly contaminated old gasworks site in Southall.

500m to the south is the very congested Western Road. Image
Image Hydrogen sulphide aka H2S can be present in old gasworks site, but I don't know if this is the case at Southall.

I had a feeling that VOCs can generate ozone, another pollutant that hasn't been monitored in Southall (as far as I know). Image
Sep 11, 2021 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Congratulations to former @ealinglabour @EalingCouncil Leader @juliangbell and on his new job with @becgUK!

becg.com/becg-appoints-…Image
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Image Strong CV!
Jul 27, 2021 • 10 tweets • 1 min read
Questions for Cllrs @_petermason, @DrAyshaRaza, @jkblacker, @JasbirAnand2 and @kamnagpal on tackling inequalities, healthy lives, thriving communities, a fairer start, specifically in reference to the ongoing air pollution and odour nuisance from the old Southall Gasworks site. 1) Why was there no Equalities Impact Assessment, taking into account the local area's existing economic and health inequalities?
Jul 19, 2021 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
There will be 14,800 new homes in 23 new developments in #Southall over the next few years.

14 units over 10 stories high, and 7 over 20 stories high.

Up to 40,000 new residents (and their cars)! 1/9 Image One third of the total new developments in the whole of #Ealing borough (only #Acton is getting it worse).

So not happening so much in the 'white' or richer areas of the borough, for some reason. 2/9
Jul 1, 2021 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
From the Southall Big Plan AGM in 2017.

Some perennial problems that our elected representatives seem to be unable - or unwilling - to do anything about.

Some things never change! Image Priority from nine years ago - clean streets! Image
May 3, 2021 • 15 tweets • 6 min read
Look at these bricks! Image Is 2500:

A) The year the new cinema in Ealing will finally be opened to the public?

B) The price of a return flight to Nice airport and five nights in Cannes?

C) The number of genuinely affordable homes to be built by Ealing Council in the four years 2018-22?
Sep 26, 2019 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
@Southall_Wside @theCALMzone @bonappetit #StopPoisoningSouthall @SouthallGaswork

You guys are really taking the piss now, aren't you? @Southall_Wside @theCALMzone @bonappetit @SouthallGaswork .@PHE_London report on the health impact of @Southall_Wside @SouthallGaswork: Image
Jul 12, 2019 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
Scientific and medical research shows that people of Asian and African ethnicity are genetically more susceptible to naphthalene poisoning via inhalation.

@PHE_London representative Robie Kamanyire falsely claimed this is from ingestion only.

youtube.com/embed/ZdTj-l3S… @PHE_London 50% ingested, 50% inhaled vapours.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.11…Image
Mar 19, 2019 • 11 tweets • 2 min read
#BerkeleyHomes admit they are oppressing the poor women and children in #Southall.

Local councillor and housing lead @_petermason, @EalingCouncil leader @juliangbell, and MP @VirendraSharma are 'satisfied' that the 'unpleasant' odour and experience of ill-health is harmless (!). @_petermason @EalingCouncil @juliangbell @VirendraSharma For two whole years #BerkeleyHomes have been spewing their toxic cocktail of VOCs and heavy metals into the homes, gardens, nurseries, schools, places of worship, and workplaces of deprived, diverse #Southall.

They will not stop.
Sep 11, 2018 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
This has shocked us all to the core.

@BerkeleyGroupUK's Head of Construction at #SouthallWaterside asked to join the board of governors at the adjacent Blair Peach Primary School.

This is from the minutes of that meeting (29/11/17). 1/7 "The HT reported that a smell/odour from the building works has on certain occasions been extremely strong, resulting in headaches ad asthma attacks. In addition, a white cloud / mist was apparent for two days." 2/7
Aug 3, 2018 • 10 tweets • 4 min read
'Benzene evaporates easily, and most people can just detect its distinctive smell at concentrations between 2.5 and 5 parts per million (ppm) in air.' (hse.gov.uk/pubns/indg329.… [PDF])

aresok.org/npg/nioshdbs/c…

convertunits.com/molarmass/Benz… Image #Benzene #Cancer #SouthallWaterside #Southall @berkeleygroupuk @EalingCouncil @EalingCustSer @pejmason @juliangbell @EnvAgencySE @PHE_London @kamnagpal

hse.gov.uk/pubns/indg329.…Image
Jul 25, 2018 • 14 tweets • 4 min read
Last Wednesday, I and two other #Southall residents met with @berkeleygroupuk's @damian_leydon, @rickwatler and @SangheraJags, and their PR company representative and note taker @chattycoley of @LocalDialogue, at their #SouthallWaterside HQ. I have to say, I was mightily impressed by their palatial portacabin HQ. The reception area was bigger than my living room, and despite the lack of natural light and windows, the air conditioning was a great relief from the high 20s temperatures outside!
Jul 9, 2018 • 17 tweets • 5 min read
Visit To #SouthallWaterside

1:40 @damian_leydon 'We had to shut the site for 2 days when it snowed, it was unsafe... it cost me a lot of money to shut the site, but it was the right decision... We all know that ice can be dangerous!'

#SouthallLivesMatter 2:07 Visitor: 'Can we go into the soil hospital?'

@damian_leydon 'Er... no. No we won't be able to go in there today.'

#SouthallWaterside #MakingSouthallStink #Southall
Jun 27, 2018 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
"It's only water vapour!" said @FMConwayltd, 3 years before being shut down and forced to stop polluting #southall.

"It's only ammonia!" say @BerkeleyGroupUK who carry on with impunity @juliangbell Spot the difference! Image
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