Issue - meetings

15 minutes

The Health and Wellbeing Board is asked to

1.  Consider whether to recommend that the Council should identify and adopt local targets for nitrogen dioxide and particulate pollution.

2.  Comment on whether to recommend that the Council should prepare a Clean Air Strategy that sets out what the local target should be, and what regulatory powers there are to help protect people’s lives.

Michelle Tett (Environmental Protection Manager) and Alexei Turner (Senior Officer, Environmental Monitoring).

Cllr Sarah Warren (Cabinet Member for Sustainable Bath and North East Somerset) introduced the report and asked the Health and Wellbeing Board to support the proposal for the Council to deliver a Clean Air Strategy.

Michelle Tett (Environmental Protection Manager) and Alexei Turner (Senior Officer, Environmental Monitoring) gave a presentation on air pollution and the impact on health and asked the Board to consider the following:

1. Whether the Council should identify and adopt local targets for nitrogen dioxide and particulate pollution.
2. Whether the Council should prepare a Clean Air Strategy that sets out what the local target should be, and what regulatory powers there are to help protect people’s lives.

Rebecca Reynolds stated that as Director of Public Health, she supported the development of a Clean Air Strategy from a public health perspective.  She noted the presentation and the statistics that air quality affected people differently.  She also referred to the statement of the public speaker relating to air pollution in Bath.

The Board was in agreement with the recommendations put forward in the report.

The Board RESOLVED to:

1.  Recommend that the Council should identify and adopt local targets for nitrogen dioxide and particulate matter.

2.  Recommend that the Council should prepare a Clean Air Strategy that sets out what the local target should be, and what regulatory powers there are to help protect people’s lives.