Goose Green ‘just not fit for homes’

Friday 25th April 2008, 12:00AM BST.

OFFICERS at Environmental Health have said that homes should never have been built on Goose Green Marsh.

They warned that the noise pollution from Jersey Steel would be too loud for those living there.

The revelation made at yesterday’s public inquiry into the decision to build the homes on the site will come as a further blow to those who have already purchased some of the Dandara properties.

On Thursday at the committee of inquiry grave concerns were raised that the developer had gone ahead building and selling homes despite not having sorted out issues of flooding and drainage. Yesterday Stephen Smith, assistant director of health protection, and Alan Irving, environmental health officer, said that the development would have major problems with noise from Jersey Steel which was much worse than they had originally thought.

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