Air Quality Strategy
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The Strategy
The people of North East Lincolnshire have a right to expect that the air that they breathe will not harm them in any way. Consequently, North East Lincolnshire Council is committed:
"to maintain and improve air quality in North East Lincolnshire making it a safe and clean area in which to live work or visit".
To help realise this vision the Council has developed a local air quality strategy, called 'Breathing Space'. This seeks to address the problem of air quality in North East Lincolnshire by monitoring, regulating and instigating measures to reduce our society's impact on the quality of the air that we all need to breathe.
'Breathing Space' focuses heavily on the need for consolidated efforts to reduce the expanding threat of poor air quality. Click on the link below to download a complete copy of the 'Breathing Space' strategy document. Depending on the speed of your connection to the internet this may take a minute or two to load.
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Why a Strategy for Air Quality?
- The Breathing Space strategy will help to ensure that the process of renewal, improvement and development in NEL will not proceed without air quality consideration.
- It will help to direct resources to areas identified as pollution hot spots or borderline in relation to the current and future air quality standards
- Through the strategy and via drawing the links to other initiatives, the Council will be able to improve air quality through its own behaviour and actions. In that way it will be possible to prompt others to also act positively in the pursuit of air quality improvement.
- It can also provide the means to increase the awareness of the health implications of air pollution and what can be done to reduce the impact.
- By developing and initiating this strategy, partnerships can be established thus enabling air quality improvement schemes to be conceived, developed, progressed and then the benefits realised.
Aim of the Strategy
The strategy is based on the single aim:
To provide the framework with which to enable the maintenance and or improvement of air quality in North East Lincolnshire, in line with both the National Air Quality Standards and the principles of best practice.
Objectives of the Strategy
Under the single aim there is five objectives:
- To continually improve the Council's ability to monitor assess and report on air quality in North East Lincolnshire.
- To develop, consult on and implement new initiatives to improve air quality in North East Lincolnshire.
- To incorporate air quality consideration in all relevant Council operations as well as to lead by example in the pursuit of air quality improvements.
- To increase general awareness of air quality, the resultant health implications and how the individual impacts can be reduced.
- To facilitate the uptake of cleaner alternative fuel powered vehicles and vehicle emission abatement technologies.
The strategy document contains a five-year implementation plan, which outlines all the key tasks that will be implemented under each of the five objective headings. These range from awareness raising exercises and improving the monitoring resources to promoting the uptake of alternative fuels and cleaner vehicle technologies.
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