AFFORDABLE housing for people who want to get on the property ladder is being planned in an area with the highest level of air pollution in Barnsley.
The area around Harborough Hill Road has been identified as having levels of traffic-associated toxic nitrogen oxide 50 per cent higher than safety levels.
Local people fear that is linked to a number of cancer deaths, a link which health bosses said was unfounded three years ago, although they have been asked to look again at the figures.
Now residents have learned that 42 ‘affordable’ apartments are planned on the AMCO plumbing and electrical distribution site, off Meadow Street.
Those on Redfearn Street, Meadow Street and Vernon Street North say if given the go ahead it will double the number of houses in the vicinity and they believe the extra cars trying to get down Redfearn Street and across three lanes of traffic on the PC World roundabout will create gridlock — and even more pollution.
Sue Herbert, 58, has lived on Redfearn Street for 39 years. She said: “We have had enough now, we’re not upset anymore we’re angry.”
