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As an Asthma sufferer myself, I get really annoyed when the BBC and media publish misleading reports and try to use sensationalised lines rather than facts.Asthma is about the same per 1000 in Urban or Rural areas.  But obviously the figures for urban areas will be far higher.My Asthma is triggered by spores from trees, Plane trees in particular.  A lot of differing factors trigger attacks and a lot is from nature itself.But the common core is overdensification of humans  Throughout history this has always lead to amplification of disease.We had for a while, a concerted effort to give space to allow people for ( excuse the pun) space to breathe, but with current policies, it is a return to over dense and cramped living and with that comes a load of social disease and ailments.Rather ironically Private Eye reports that former Prime Minister recently addressed developers and building corps on poor developments and living space and warned on the long term risks of this.  A well measured and poignant speech when read in full.  But Private Eye also pointed out that her own ministers and predecessors are responsible for several planning changes that have led to cramped and poor sized living spaces in new developments.The current policy for quota targets so loved by the Mayor and seemingly never questioned by supporting authorities is doing nothing to help health matters but ignoring the lessons at least embraced but not fully executed by those in the past 80 years

Raymond Havelock ● 2197d