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Air Quality Action Plan for Farrington Gurney and Temple Cloud

Meeting: 16/11/2020 - Climate Emergency and Sustainability Policy Development and Scrutiny Panel (Item 78)

78 Air Quality Action Plan for Farrington Gurney and Temple Cloud pdf icon PDF 66 KB

A report is attached. There will also be a presentation at the meeting.

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Minutes:

Phil Mansfield, Head of Building Control and Public Protectionintroduced the report to the Panel. The following officers were present – Cathryn Brown Team Manager (Licensing and Environmental Protection); Aled Williams, Environmental Protection Manager; Rob Spalding, Senior Environmental Monitoring Officer and Tiago Roque, Public Protection Technical Officer. The officers gave a presentation which covered the following:

 

·  Update

·  Monitoring data – Temple Cloud

·  Monitoring data – Farrington Gurney

·  Public Consultation

·  How much the public supports the following measures regarding Air Quality in Temple Cloud

·  How much the public supports the following measures regarding Air Quality in Farrington Gurney

·  Criteria and Attribute Weighting

·  Temple Cloud overall preference against maximum possible score

·  Farrington Gurney overall preference against maximum possible score

·  Measures Proposed from the Consultation

·  Progress so far (Molly Close Footpath, Width Restriction in Temple Cloud)

·  Progress so far (Innovative Technologies)

·  Progress so far (Tree cutting and Speed restrictions)

·  Next Steps

 

Panel members made the following points and asked the following questions. Officer responses are shown in italics.

 

Councillor Wood, Cabinet Member for Neighbourhoods thanked the officers for the report and presentation. An officer explained that as environmental monitoring officers, they are consultees on planning developments over a certain size, this means we can comment and ensure developments are as sustainable as possible.

 

Councillor Walker asked about the shuttle scheme in Temple Cloud. The officer explained that north bound vehicles come into the village at speed and so

work would need to be done to see what it would look like.

 

Councillor Craig raised the following points. Officer responses shown in italics:

 

·  Regarding both locations – monitoring in August went in the opposite direction. A number of things can affect this such as temperature and wind conditions. There are also changes and renewal of vehicles over time. The solid line is a 3-year trend and can be a better indicator than short term data.

·  210 responses – how many homes are currently in the two areas? Temple Cloud – 550 houses. Farrington Gurney – 450 houses.

·  Both locations – there was a high response asking for influence over planning decisions. Unless there is planning policy around this, the Committee cannot give comments much weight. We work closely with planning officers and have the same Director now. Regarding an Air Quality Action plan – we are looking into an enhanced pool of planning conditions.

 

Councillor Born raised the following points. Officer response shown in italics:

 

·  The new Molly Lane footpath is a quick win and would allow people to walk away from the main road.

·  Regarding the innovative technology – what size area would a device cover? Innovative technology is not widely used and mainly used inside. The market is not flooded with options at the moment. The efficiency is 2/2.5 metres. This is for one type of technology only. We would need a certain amount of surface area for each unit – there are space and maintenance considerations.

·  Cutting the tree canopy – how do you balance with the positive effect trees have  ...  view the full minutes text for item 78

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