Terrified residents claim a new 48-housing development will be a possible death trap which is being built on land that’s next to a historic waste site filled with drums of cyanide which could start leaking underground at any point.
Horrified mother of two Jessica Ramsay, conveyed concerns of some other residents, saying that it was an incident waiting to happen and could be catastrophic.
The freelance admin worker has slammed her local council for failing to carry out adequate soil tests on the old killer tip site at Wolston, Warwickshire, which formed part of discussions in Parliament decades ago.
Mrs Ramsay, and her retired parents, are now planning to conduct tests themselves on the ground to find out just how contaminated it actually is.
The worried mum, speaking exclusively to a newspaper outlet, said that they haven’t begun testing yet but they will as soon as they’ve bought the kits.
She said that Rugby Borough Council had done some basic testing but it was non-evasive, and, they believe, inadequate, and that not enough was being done to monitor it, so they had no choice but to test themselves.
The huge Spitfire Homes development, on former allotments in front of the higher disused waste tip site, is near the village centre ensconced between Rugby and Coventry.
The first phase of work started in March and is currently at the digging and drainage stage.
Mrs Ramsay, 36, lives opposite on the Warwick Road side with her parish councillor husband and two children, Isabel, aged two and a half, and eight-year-old Oliver.
She said that the site was a potential death trap, and that if the barrels of cyanide that were buried 10 feet underground started the leak, which conservation experts have said could after many years. It would be almost at the level of the new homes on lower ground and the existing allotments.
She also said that it could be catastrophic and that it was an accident waiting to happen.
Her mum Lesley Blay, 74 added that they welcome new people to their lovely village when the houses are built, but that the residents have a duty of care to make sure it’s a safe place for them.
Contamination also exists in some foods, yet it’s deemed healthy and completely safe to consume – clearly not! And houses have been built on polluted grounds many times, but sadly as immigration levels get bigger under the Tories, we as a country are having to keep lowering the criteria in terms of building regulations for housing estates, and I can guarantee that the people asserting the site is safe will not be the ones who will be living there.
We appear to be building houses everywhere. Any scrap of green belt and it’s being excavated and built on and concreted over at an alarming rate, but they don’t care because they’re under tremendous pressure to build absolutely anywhere.
The value of the land has increased and so has the need for housing, but there really isn’t enough land in this country to support our ever-growing population, so industrial and polluted land is being overturned for its next suitable use.
Someone authorised the burial of drums of cyanide, which is utter madness, and now, someone is possibly going to have to live with it just beyond their back gardens, and people will buy that legacy that could spill into the local groundwater system or emerge as a gas. Makes you wonder what other treasures have been squirrelled away, around the country, for future generations to enjoy.
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