Issue details
Zero Emissions Network Project Phase Three
The ZEN Project is a partnership project
between Hackney, Islington and Tower Hamlets Councils to improve
local air quality. The project has secured £390,000 funding
from the London Mayor’s Air Quality Fund (MAQF) 2019 and
match funded by each borough to continue the work of ZEN phases 1
and 2 to implement a business engagement environmental
sustainability programme. The fund is equally shared between
boroughs over the three year project.
The main aim of the project is to promote the use of sustainable
travel and low emission technology to businesses in order to
improve local air quality. Targets have been set for the number of
businesses that are engaged and number of audits of environmental
footprints undertaken. Environmental action plans are then
submitted to businesses with a range of measures to implement in
order to reduce emissions. Businesses are invited to apply for
grant funding from the project up to a maximum of £2,000 to
implement reduction measures to encourage staff to travel
sustainably
Decision type: Key
Decision status: Issue Closed in System
Wards affected: Canary Wharf; Spitalfields & Banglatown; Weavers; Whitechapel;
Notice of proposed decision first published: 17/12/2019
Decision due: 16 Jan 20 by Grants Determination (Cabinet) Sub-Committee
Department: Place
Contact: David Tolley, (Head of Environmental Health and Trading Standards) Email: david.tolley@towerhamlets.gov.uk.
Consultation process
face to face consultation
Consultees
Businesses that are able to apply for the
grant will be directly consulted.
Has an Equality Analysis been carried out and if so the result of this Assessment?: The decision does not require an Equality Impact Assessment (EqIA) to be carried out first
Documents
- Zero Emissions Network Project Phase Three