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This particular gas is not thought to be a threat to health in Kent.
But it goes to show that pollution in general does blow over from the Continent to Britain. Hence the estimated 6,000 deaths a year here due to chemical substances coming from the EU.
The worst hit area is South East England, in particular Kent, as we are most exposed to it.
So the death rate in Kent due to air pollution must be much higher than anywhere else in rural Britain.
DDC also recognise that pollution in the air in Dover comes partly from Europe, it's on their website.
In Dover we are significantly worse-off, as we also get the full blast of Port traffic and the smoke coming from ferry funnels.
One just has to see the black clouds constantly bursting out of the ferry chimneys in Eastern Docks to get a notion of it.
But the chemical toxic in traffic petrol and coming from factory chimneys in Europe is invisible, so we are breathing in massive amounts of it.
This will be one of the basic points in my representation to DDC on the core strategy, to argue against the building of 15,000 new homes in Dover and District and the trebling of our population, as we would have traffic never-ending streaming into and out of Dover both from the Port and from Whitfield.
There is already far too much traffic transiting along Barton Road, London Road and Folkestone Road, up Tower Hamlets and down Frith Road.
Our schools are also negatively affected by it.
There are in fact two public consultations running on this, one expires in February, the other in March.