THE UK’s “biggest road planter” is set to tour Warrington today (Feb 27) and appear at a protest rally outside the Golden Gates organised by the Scrap the Central 6 Street Plan campaign group.
The ‘virtual’ planter will be seen on a video van which will also play films at key sites across Warrington.
The van will appear at a peaceful rally at 5.45pm starting at the Town Hall gates.
Residents intend to protest at the Council’s response to evidence that the Central 6 Street Plans are causing increased pollution. The increases were detailed in the official Central 6 Streets Plan report and show a 50% increase on Kingsway South, a 20% increase on Knutsford Road and an estimated 100 Tons of additional Co2 due to extra journey miles and lengthy traffic jams.
Residents recently wrote to Councillors asking what they intended to do about the problem.
David Marshall, from the Scrap the Central 6 Street Plan campaign, said: “The response from councillors to the pollution figures was shocking and unbelievable. We were told that the Council admits pollution on Winwick Road is caused by traffic but in Latchford they say the increases are caused by the weather. However, in the official Central 6 report it shows weather effects in Latchford going back to 2018 and every year in Latchford pollution falls between June and August – except in 2022 – as soon as they block Grange Avenue the Central 6 pollution bombs arrive and pollution is up by 50% on Kingsway South and 20% on Knutsford Road.
“It is sad to see the Council contradicting its own official report and dismissing the findings of their own consultant’s published readings. They should be concluding that the Central 6 Street Plan for Westy/Latchford is failing and damaging the health of residents. There comes a time when folk have to put the health of our kids and disabled residents first, a time to stop ignoring miles of daily traffic jam fumes and a time to admit the Westy/Latchford Central 6 street plan has failed.”
