THE Green Party’s London mayoral candidate Sian Berry is seeking to convince the Ealing electorate to vote for ‘the party of social justice’ on Saturday.

Campaigning outside Ealing Broadway Shopping Centre, Ms Berry promised to create more social housing and affordable homes if elected on May 5.

She criticised Conservative candidate Zac Goldsmith’s plans for council estate regeneration, which she believed would demolish more homes than would be built.

She said: “I think this betrays the fact that he doesn’t understand the people who live there.”

She claimed to be the only candidate who knows how to tackle the problem of ‘9,500 deaths a year caused by air pollution’, by opposing any road building and airport expansions, excluding the worst offending cars and lorries from central London and providing 25,000 electric car charging points around the city.

Ms Berry said she would also help to solve transport problems by subsidising travel fares for part-time workers.

With only 3.2 per cent of the votes when she ran for London mayor in 2008, Ms Berry said she was pleased with the amount of interest in her campaign this time around.

Tanya Hawksworth, 51, an assistant merchandiser, said: “There are some interesting things on the agenda. Travel and the cost of travel is important to us Londoners.”

Elizabeth Curlet, 63, joined the party about 18 months ago, but said she had been feeling green for a long time.

“We live on one tiny planet,” she said. “To protect the quality of life on it, we need to slow down.

“Cars are brilliant, but are not good in cities.”

Ms Berry was joined on Saturday by the Green Party’s London Assembly candidate for Ealing and Hillingdon, Meena Hans, who has lived in Ealing for the past 40 years.

Ms Hans, an adult education teacher, said she was not a career politician but felt she had no choice about campaigning for the environment as it was such an important issue.

She said: “If I can change one person’s opinion then that’s a good day. It’s slow, but steady.”