Some SENDRA members are worried about the impact of the Westgate developments and the increasing levels of traffic on the quality of the air they breathe.

SENDRA has established a collaboration with the Network for Clean Air UK, an Oxford based association that organises programmes of citizen science projects to measure air pollution. Network for Clean Air has kindly offered SENDRA two diffusion tubes for measuring the concentration of Nitrogen Dioxide, one of the main air pollutants generated by combustion engines.

Tubes were installed on the 10th of January 2016 in two locations: Thames Street and Dale Close. This way we will be able to compare the level of exposure to pollutants between homes close to the main roads and those a bit more inside.

The installed tubes will be removed at the beginning of February and sent to a lab where they will be analysed. Results will be distributed to SENDRA members as soon as they are available.