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Our village, Grampound in Cornwall, is to be designated an Air Quality Management Area. A report of the air quality monitoring
Our village, Grampound in Cornwall, is to be designated an Air Quality Management Area. A report of the air quality monitoring has been published and a consultation started.
The traffic through Grampound is about 11,000 vehicles a day and since it is a narrow road on a steep hill with thatched cottages and a primary school within a conservation area, the traffic is a problem to say the least.
The Royal College of Physicians and Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health report of February 2016 says:
"Local authorities need to act to protect public health when air pollution levels are high. When these limits are exceeded, local authorities must have the power to close or divert roads to reduce the volume of traffic, especially near schools."
Meanwhile our Government was ordered by its own Supreme Court in 2015 to come up with a plan having not acted in years. The EU Commission has now issued a final warning in 2017 so the intentions of our elected leaders remains unclear. In my mind leaving the EU does not include killing our citizens with air pollution (currently 40,000 deaths are attributable to it each year in the UK). Action to address air pollution targets is needed now to save lives. Political commitment towards that goal is expected. Targets we have inherited from the EU should remain in place and tightened as our understanding of the health risks improve.
Source: www.cornwall.gov.uk
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