May is National Walking Month – so what?
We could save 17,000 fossil fuelled journey per day – that’s a 41% reduction. In our view this is a great vision – it’s now just about putting the right carrot and stick...
Tagged: pollution
Poor air quality worse threat than alcohol or obesity
One of our committee members picked out this piece from Saturday’s Guardian. One study suggests that nearly 60% of the UK’s population live in areas where air pollution is above the legal limit. The...
BreATHe2021 – our response
In response to the proposals for a Clean Air Zone to be formed around central Bath, which were released on the 6th April and our attendance at the subsequent briefing, the Committee of...
End of April Report – please follow us
Reading through the last monthly report I’m struck by how much has happened since then. At this time last month we were still awaiting the publication of the Council’s “Clean Air Plan: Strategic Outline Case”. We got...
BreATHe2021 has simplified
Things appear to have simplified – the zone options have reduced to one – the extended option. If so, we are now left with one question – how many types of vehicles will...
Camden rides high
Disappointingly, representatives of just five residents associations, out of 29, managed to attend a workshop run by the Council’s BreATHe2021 project team on 19th April about the proposed Clean Air Zone. Better news...
Exhalation from BreATHe
BreATHe is the cute name for the programme of work B&NES has been compelled to start as a result of the recent High Court Direction. It has to yield results by 2021 so...
End of March Report
We’re sufficiently heartened by the interest in this blog to pay the £36 per year to make it ‘advert free’. So we hope it encourages you to keep reading each post. Don’t forget...
Promoting cycling
CycleBath, run by Adam Reynolds is getting quite a bit of prominence. The ‘killer stat’ for me is depicted in this pie-chart which we produced from his 2011 census data with a bit...
United we stand, divided we fall
As events really begin to hot up regarding air quality in Bath the Camden Residents Association is beginning to align itself with other bodies who: are suggesting the same sort of direction for...