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to the following organisations, none of whom have acknowledged
receipt, provided counter evidence or disputed its conclusion.
Natural Resources Wales, Neath-Port Talbot Council, Glynneath Town Council. |
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PROGRESSIVE SUPRANUCLEAR PALSY - ‘PSP’ CLUSTER, BRYNHYFRYD, GLYNNEATH |
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This draft report is submitted to the relevant authorities for consideration in order that they can provide contrary evidence to the information contained within, or to take the appropriate actions to prevent further deaths of East Glynneath residents from Progressive Supranuclear Palsy and other illnesses related to the contamination at the Heol y Glyn landfill site in Glynneath. In the last 5 years, 20% of properties in Brynhyfryd with long term occupancy bordering the Heol y Glyn landfill site have recorded deaths from rare neurological disorders. This report concludes that: | |
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“Residents of Brynhyfryd are dying from the rare neurological disorder Progressive Supranuclear Palsy. These deaths are almost certainly due to specified and other probable unspecified contamination tipped at the Heol y Glyn landfill site. Public officers who have covered up this contamination are potentially responsible for the unlawful killing of these residents.” |
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This report has been commissioned by members of the East Glynneath – Residents
Against Contamination group
The content was prepared by David Richards of Rugby Relics Ltd, 66 Brynhyfryd, Glynneath, Neath, SA11 5BA EAST GLYNNEATH RESIDENTS AGAINST CONTAMINATION GROUP |
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BACKGROUND Our street 'Brynhyfryd' borders the Heol y Glyn landfill site that has planning permission |
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AUTHOR NOTE: My role is to support the residents in our group and have not yet extended my research beyond those that have contacted me and volunteered information. It is not known if other residents in the area have been affected and if the PSP cluster is extended beyond Brynhyfryd to other parts of Glynneath and the surrounding area. This is for the relevant authorities to investigate and to take any appropriate action on the conclusion of their investigation. If the relevant authorities fail to observe the purpose of their existence in supporting the members of the East Glynneath Residents Against Contamination group then I will make this information available to the wider public and highlight their accountability for the negative outcomes of this failure to act upon information provided to them that is pertinent to their existence. |
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PROGRESSIVE SUPRANUCLEAR PALSY
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relevant information on two Brynhyfryd residents’ death certificates |
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The incidences or national average of Progressive Supranuclear Palsy cases occurring in the UK are 1 in 100,000 people per year. Glynneath is a town of just under 5,000 people. This being the case, the expected incident rate of PSP occurring in Glynneath is approximately 1 case in every 20 years or 2 cases in 40. That 2 cases have occurred in a group of 5 houses and that both cases were diagnosed within a period of 2 years of each other is a serious cause for concern and as such these incidences must be considered a ‘cluster’. We take the meaning of a cluster here to be: "A cluster is the occurrence of a greater than expected number of cases of a particular disease within a group of people, a geographic area, or a period of time." |
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Locations of rare neurological disorder deaths in Brynhyfryd houses bordering the Heol y Glyn landfill site. |
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Research into Progressive Supranuclear Palsy clusters by relevant health professionals with an interest in the disorder show that the only previously recorded cluster of PSP is in the French town of Wattrelos, a scientific paper published in relation to the cluster concluded that: "We have identified a cluster of Progressive Supranuclear Palsy in a geographical area I have taken the following quotes from the same published scientific peer reviewed paper |
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"Wattrelos is a town in northern France where textile dyeing plants and tanneries operated for most of the 20th century, using arsenic and chromate from the nearby chemical plants. Arsenic and hexavalent chromium contamination have been documented in the soils of the sites of former plants in Wattrelos and Leers, where the cluster of PSP cases described in this report live." "Arsenic, a potential neurotoxin, has been found in the soil at the sites of the former Both chromium and arsenic have been found in chemical testing at the Heol y Glyn The Cuddy Group regularly excavated deep holes in which |
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REPORTS OF CONTAMINATION & TESTING
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Additional to our draft report, during the planning committee meeting of 8 September 2020, the current Neath Port Talbot Contaminated Land Officer confirmed the breach of the 1990 Environmental Protection Act by indicating that the testing of the land in 2008 was very limited, the sampling shallow and his opinion was that the testing was not sufficient enough considering the site as a whole. This confirmed the findings of the EGRAC draft report submitted to the Planning |
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Neath Port Talbot Council have failed to respond to the submitted report and have also refused to provide evidence of due diligence taken in relation to the findings of the report. They have refused to provide any further relevant information even when Freedom of Information requests have been made. |
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The Heol y Glyn landfill site has been misrepresented on the Local Development Plan to show it as a suitable location for a housing development. It is a former ‘council’ ash tip and so historically the land has been used as both a domestic and industrial landfill site for the majority of the last 80 years. There were several years of unregulated tipping at the site by the former owners, the Cuddy Group. The Cuddy group was a specialist industrial waste disposal company and at one time was billed as the 12th largest demolition company in the world. The combination of the historic domestic tipping and the more recent unregulated industrial tipping, together with a failure to treat contamination when identified at the site in accordance with the land contamination protocol are evidence factors that suggest the contamination is the probable cause for the deaths of the two residents with the Progressive Supranuclear Palsy disorder. |
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ACCOUNTABILITY
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SUMMARY: Progressive Supranuclear Palsy is an extremely rare neurological disorder. The national |
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CONCLUSION: “Residents of Brynhyfryd are dying from the rare neurological disorder
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LINKS
CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE EGRAC 1990 ENVIRIONMENTAL PROTECTION ACT BREACH REPORT CLICK HERE TO VIEW THIS DOCUMENT ONLINE GLYNNEATH CONTAMINATION POTENTIAL CORPORATE HOMICIDE CORRUPTION COALITION |