Issue - meetings
Air Quality Action Plan Update on Progress
Meeting: 31/07/2019 - Cabinet (Item 6)
6 Air Quality Action Plan Update on Progress 
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Additional documents:
- 6.4a Appendix 1 - LBTH Air Quality Action Plan 2017-2022, item 6
PDF 807 KB
- 6.4b Appendix 2 - Terms of reference for the air quality partnership board, item 6
PDF 140 KB
- 6.4c Appendix 3 - LBTH Annual Status Report for 2017, item 6
PDF 2 MB
- 6.4d Appendix 4 -Air Quality Action Plan Matrix, item 6
PDF 327 KB
- 6.4e Appendix 5 - Air Quality and School Projects, item 6
PDF 181 KB
- 6.4e2 School Streets, item 6
PDF 749 KB
- 6.4f Appendix 6- Anti-idling Enforcement Plan, item 6
PDF 23 KB
- 6.4g Air Quality Cabinet Report, item 6
PDF 378 KB
- Webcast for Air Quality Action Plan Update on Progress
Decision:
The updated report was noted.
The Pre-Decision Scrutiny Questions and officer responses were noted.
DECISION
1. To note the progress the Council is making in implementing the Air Quality Action Plan 2017-2022.
2. To approve the amalgamation of the Air Quality Partnership Board with the Health and Wellbeing Board.
3. To approve the preparation of an Air Quality Delivery Plan for the final years of the Air Quality Action Plan to address targeted action on our most polluted areas and the presence of PM2.5
4. To note the further actions identified in this report which would support a Delivery Plan.
5. To note the specific equalities considerations as set out in Paragraph in paragraph 4.1 of the report.
Action by:
CORPORATE DIRECTOR, PLACE (A. SUTCLIFFE)
(Head of Environmental Health and Trading Standards (D. Tolley)
Minutes:
Councillor Rachel Blake, Deputy Mayor and Cabinet Member for Planning, Air Quality and Tackling Poverty, introduced the report. She noted the tabled updated cover report and recommendations. She highlighted how illegal air quality impacts on residents within the borough (particularly children) and how the plan would tackle this important issue. It set out progress which had already been made against the action plan as well as new work and improvements. She noted the proposal was to consolidate the Air Quality Partnership Board into the Health and Wellbeing Board who would be monitoring this work in the future.
The Mayor welcomed the report, noted the Pre-Decision Scrutiny Questions and officer responses and agreed the recommendations as set out.
RESOLVED
1. To note the progress the Council is making in implementing the Air Quality Action Plan 2017-2022.
2. To approve the amalgamation of the Air Quality Partnership Board with the Health and Wellbeing Board.
3. To approve the preparation of an Air Quality Delivery Plan for the final years of the Air Quality Action Plan to address targeted action on our most polluted areas and the presence of PM2.5
4. To note the further actions identified in this report which would support a Delivery Plan.
5. To note the specific equalities considerations as set out in Paragraph in paragraph 4.1 of the report.