Huge stadium and 3,500 homes plan rejected amid 'toxic lead poisoning fears'

Huge stadium and 3,500 homes plan rejected amid 'toxic lead poisoning fears'

The Secretary of State has rejected plans for a £40 million waterfront neighbourhood featuring 3,500 homes and a new football stadium.

Angela Rayner rejects plans for 3,500 homes, shops and stadium in Kent

Housing secretary finds Northfleet Harbourside would put residents at risk of lead poisoning and cause the loss of hundreds of industrial jobs

‘Highly toxic living environment’: 3,500 Kent homes plan rejected over health fears

A proposal to develop Northfleet Harbourside, a major regeneration project on a 20ha waterfront site in Gravesend, Kent, has been refused due to the risk of “chronic exposure to toxic lead”. The post ‘Highly toxic living environment’: 3,500 Kent homes plan rejected over health fears appeared first on New Civil Engineer.