Notice of Motion
CITYWIDE ROLLOUT OF REAL-TIME AIR QUALITY MONITORING SYSTEM
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· The city needs publicly available real-time data about pan-city air pollution (NO2 and PM) to enable: § Officers to assess how interventions, building configuration changes or traffic flow changes affect air quality
§ Residents and visitors vulnerable to air pollution to plan their days when pollution levels are high. This Council also agrees to request that: · The Environment, Transport and Sustainability Committee explores investing in a city-wide real-time AQ monitoring system with information available in real-time via a website for residents, councillors and officers.
· The Tourism, Equalities, Communities & Culture Committee considers amending planning policy to ensure that all residential and business developments that come to planning committee install and maintain an AQ monitor with data available to BHCC |
Supporting Information:
· Air quality is an issue of concern for residents and the council, and the health consequences of poor air quality are well documented.
· The City has 56 NO2 diffusion tubes in 54 locations across the city which give yearly and monthly averages.
· The City has 4 NO2 & PM monitoring stations providing data in 15-minute averages.
· The pioneering work of Breathe London, with its public website that displays air quality information in real time https://www.breathelondon.org/
· A new project which will “provide residents in Neath Port Talbot, Wales with accurate ‘real-time air pollution measurements…to achieve a better understanding of air quality on a local level which will allow the council to effectively identify pollution hotspots and then target interventions”.