Sniffin’ around

A month ago it was traffic monitors. Now Mouchel are testing the air. These two gentlefolk were spotted by an eagle-eyed resident last evening placing an air-quality monitoring device on a lamp post at the junction of Staines Road East and Kenton Avenue.

They didn’t really have to bother – anyone who travels or lives along that road could tell them for free that the air quality is bad, very bad. But I suppose they have to know how exactly how bad it is, so they can calculate how much worse it will be with an extra 3000 cars added to the traffic round here. Especially since Spelthorne Council decommissioned their much more sophisticated air quality monitor at Sunbury Cross recently.

Mouchel are fully entitled to do this, of course. So why were they so coy about it? The man in the brown T-shirt removed his hi-vis jacket (with the word Mouchel across the back) when he saw he had been noticed. And Mouchel are a big company – surely they could run to giving their monitor-placers a step-ladder?

There are almost certainly more of these about. Have you seen any?

Please send photographs to keepkemptongreen@hotmail.co.uk together with the location where you found them. It’s important that we know.

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Another one at the junction of Green Street and Thames Street opposite the Flower Pot.

One other on Green Street (just north of Sunmead Road and north of the temporary traffic lights), and two on The Avenue, on at the north end of the shops, and one just south of the Manor Lane intersection.

Thanks to all for the rapid response. So far 13 have been found:

Gaston Bridge Road
Halliford Road
Fordbridge Road
cnr Thames Street/Green Street
Green Street nr Sunmead Avenue
Nursery Road
The Avenue nr Manor Lane
The Avenue nr Saxonbury Avenue
Harfield Road nr Thames Street
Kenton Avenue nr Staines Road East
Thames Street at Hampton
Church Street at Hampton
High Street at Hampton

Any more?