28/08/2026
DUST! WHAT DUST, THEY SAID!! 🙄🌪️
Well… it seems someone has finally noticed it! 👀
For months, many residents living around Wandon — and those who have no choice but to walk past the building site — have been putting up with an excessive amount of dust flying around the area.
We’ve raised concerns. We’ve taken photographs. We’ve spoken about it.
And now, this week, Boom Construction Limited have been issued with a Section 80 Abatement Notice under the Environmental Protection Act 1990.
So apparently, it wasn’t just residents imagining all that dust after all! 😉
Below is a brief copy of an email received by a local resident. Some information and case references have not been disclosed.
We would be really interested to hear from anyone else who has received additional information, so please get in touch.
The email states:
“I carried out a visit to the site and witnessed the escape of dust from the site at a sufficient amount to meet the threshold for a statutory nuisance. I met with the site manager and explained the dust had been assessed as causing a statutory nuisance and specifically what was causing the nuisance around the site during my visit.
I have issued Boom Construction Limited as the company responsible for the activities that are causing the dust, with a Section 80 Abatement Notice under The Environmental Protection Act 1990, prohibiting the nuisance as covered by Section 79(1)(d) of that Act, namely:
‘any dust, steam, smell or other effluvia arising on any industrial, trade or business premises and being prejudicial to health or a nuisance.’
The notice is in place for 1 year and I shall be carrying out ad hoc inspection visits over the coming weeks and months to ensure that there is not a breach.
If you experience a dust nuisance after this week, please can you document it with time and date-stamped photos [free apps are available to download onto a smart phone] and send them to me.”
LBC Investigations Hub Team
Neighbourhood Delivery
Public Protection
Inclusive Growth
So there we have it…
The dust really was there. It really was a nuisance. And it was serious enough to warrant an official Abatement Notice. 🤷♀️
The notice is reportedly in place for 12 months, with ad hoc inspections planned during that time.
📸 PLEASE KEEP DOCUMENTING IT
If you experience further dust nuisance, take time and date-stamped photographs and report them as requested.
Because apparently, when residents say “there’s dust everywhere!”, sometimes it takes an official visit to confirm that… yes, there really is dust everywhere! 😂
If anyone else has received information about the notice, we’d love to hear from you.
Thank you to the residents who have continued to raise concerns and provide evidence.
