Air Quality on A406 / Bowes

A question was raised about air quality and its monitoring at Bowes Primary School at the BHORA AGM (Tuesday 7 June 2016).

Tracking the latest position is straightforward via eg the phone app “London Air”. Note UK monitoring covers only (the legally required) NO2 and PM10’s, not the damaging PM2.5’s (not legally required).

On the R4 Today programme (Thursday 9^th June) at about 7:12am, BBC i-player users who missed it will be able to hear Professor Frank Kelly, Chairman of COMEAP, the Department of Health’s Expert Committee on the Medical Effects of Air Pollution, and Liz Howard, a Bowes school parent, being interviewed live outside the school gates about the position – which for NO2 was said to be roughly twice the legal limit.

What was not said was that the legal limit does not equate to a safe-health limit, which is much lower. This is the same legal limit subject to a Supreme Court ruling against the Government last year and which appears will be subject to further legal action due to their claimed inadequate response. It is an EU wide Law.

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Permalink Reply by Liz Wright on June 10, 2016 at 0:47

With reference to air quality - a question was also raised at BHORA AGM by a resident of Brownlow Road regarding recent local traffic rerouting plans from Enfield. The proposed plans involve further traffic regulation on the nearby side roads. These plans will have an increasingly negative impact on traffic flow in BR with yet more stationary cars emitting fumes for even longer... One of the counsellors commented that residents in BR have just 'woken up to what is happening'.

3 days to respond to the survey...

http://www.enfield.gov.uk/info/867/current_consultations/3961/warwi...

It might be helpful if we could work together - rather than support what seems to be the council's more devisive approach to traffic regulation in our area.

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Permalink Reply by karl brown on June 11, 2016 at 11:30

This letter was printed in the Enfield Independent (and an edited version in the Advertiser) the day following the AGM, looking in part at queuing traffic. The next day it was announced that Enfield would be one of ten boroughs receiving Mayoral funding to develop “clean air squads”. These will target stationary vehicles with running engines in eg residential areas and roads known for running engines.

It may be worth asking Bowes ward councillors to ensure Brownlow and Warwick Roads are on the target list.

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Permalink Reply by Donald Smith on June 11, 2016 at 12:22

Karl Brown wrote:

It may be worth asking Bowes ward councillors to ensure Brownlow and Warwick Roads are on the target list.

Perhaps Karl can write to the Bowes Ward Councillors with this suggestion and ask for the item to be added to the draft agenda for the upcoming Bowes Ward Area Forum

Attention is also drawn to the article in the London Evening Standard page 12 on 10th June 2016 entitled:

Exhaust Scrubbers tested on older buses could save hundreds of lives