By Milly Vincent For Mailonline
Published: 11:06 BST, 13 April 2019 | Updated: 13:45 BST, 13 April 2019
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Approval for a housing development in London has been granted in an area so polluted residents will be advised to keep their windows shut.
The air quality assessment commissioned by the developers found that future residents of the development, just off the A2 in Lewisham, South London, will be breathing in far above the legal limit of nitrogen dioxide.
An area surrounding the build was found to have 56.3 micrograms of nitrogen dioxide per cubic meter - the legal limit is 40.
Planning projections of the Creekside 1 off the A2 in Lewisham, South London
The highest level within the building development was 43.7 leading assessors to advise that future residents keep their windows closed to the outside pollution.
The assessment concluded: 'With opening windows the developer should advise the future occupants that their health could be at risk due to relatively high levels of air pollution in the area.'
Air campaigner Rosamund Kissi-Debrah said the decision was 'an absolute disaster' reported The Guardian.
View of the Creekside 1 proposal from the South. An area surrounding the build was found to have 56.3 micrograms of nitrogen dioxide per cubic meter - the legal limit is 40
The developers proposed green spaces outside of the development, to counteract pollution
Ms Kissi-Debrah's daughter Ella Kissi-Debrah, 9, died of acute respiratory failure in Lewisham in 2013 after consistently being exposed to higher than legal NO2 levels in
