Southall residents attended a meeting with two Imperial College London scientists who will investigate the chemical exposure of residents to The Green Quarter development by Berkeley Group.

The development was constructed on the former Southall Gasworks site, and the gathering suggests that there are STILL potential health hazards among residents living in the vicinity of the brownfield site.

Holly Walder, a PhD student in Environmental Research Group, and Dr. Ian Mudway, a senior lecturer in the School of Public Health, both from Imperial College London, held a meeting with Southall residents on Sunday 16 April 2023, at the Dominion Centre to discuss their research and engage with the community.

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The initial phase of the study is set to begin in a month and will span a duration of one month. The researchers intend to collect 50 air samples from the homes of affected residents and relevant public locations in Southall. The study will focus on locations that are most likely to be impacted by the development and may be of greater concern to the community.

This will be followed by the second phase of the study and results will be available in 2024.

Meeting Room 2 was packed at the Dominion Centre. There was no room for sitting or standing. Around 40 people were present at the meeting.

No council officer or councillor was presents. They would have found it difficult to justify their previous inaction or to promise any help now.

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At the Dominion Centre, in July 2019, that is almost 4 years ago, Ealing Council Leader Julian Bell said that the soil hospital work is over. Yet to this day, people can still smell the stench. Many outsiders can testify to this. Dr Mudway on recent site visit is one of them.

In 2020, The Guardian did a report on the Southall Gasworks site – Is my neighbourhood ‘poisoning’ me? Living in the shadow of a gasworks redevelopment. 27 thosand people have viewed the video.

The Green Quarter (by the canal side), conjures up a pleasant image. yet resident residents say this is far from the truth.

The family on one resident have been suffering for years. The council will not move them out of their hell house. If they leave by themselves, they will be classed as making themselves intentionally homeless.

Any Ealing or Southall councillors willing to come forward to help this suffering and deprived family in Southall?

Another residents said his 93 old mother has to wear a mask to sleep due to problems from the site. Any Southall councillor willing to help them move?

David Marsden tweeted "We never see our elected Ealing Labour councillors and yet again today with such an important meeting they were nowhere to be seen. Surely at least one of them could have turned up to find out more? It just shows they don’t seem to care about residents and the air we breathe."