Community Air Quality Monitoring in Sheffield

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Community Air Quality Monitoring in Sheffield

• Started by Tinsley Forum and Community Health
  Transport Project April 1998 ( later East End
  Quality of Life Initiative)
• Concerns about effects of air pollution on
  residents health and quality of life
• Using diffusion tubes to measure levels of
  nitrogen dioxide.
• Advised by City Council Environment Strategy team

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• Monitoring extended to other communities in M1
  Motorway Corridor in June 2003
• Darnall, Handsworth, Brinsworth and Catcliffe
• Concerns about pollution from development sites
  in MI Corridor from local residents
• Articulated by community organisations Handsworth
  Forum, Darnall Forum, Brinsworth and Catcliffe
  Partnership
• Burngreave Green City Action nearer City Centre

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Tinsley
Meadowhall
South Yorks Technology Corridor
AMP Site
Waverley Site
Handsworth
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• In November 2003 City Councils Environment
  Strategy successfully applied to The Department
  of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
  (DEFRA) for funding.
• East End Quality Of Life Initiative asked to
  co-ordinate role out to other parts of city
• Project extended to other parts of city and West
  Rotherham Heeley Development Trust, Foxhill
  Forum, Treeton Partnership, Neepsend Forum, Green
  City Action in Firvale, Broomhall Forum,
  Highcliffe Road Residents Group, Nether Edge
  Forum, Greenhill Neighbourhood Watch , Abbeydale
  School and an individual in Sharrow

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• What the community organisations do each month
• change the diffusion tubes. (5 to 12 sites)
• record on log sheet tube batch number, tube
  number, site and date and time of change over

• log sheet and exposed tubes sent to laboratory
  for analysis every month

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Brinsworth Catcliffe Partnership Community Air
Quality Monitoring of Nitrogen Dioxide June 2004
to May 2005
In partnership with East End Quality of Life
Initiative and SCC Environment Strategy
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• Local Community Networks and City Councils Area
  Panels used locate Organisations wanting to
  participate in of project
• Annual report produced
• Workshop held in May (commented on Local
  Transport Plan Draft)

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Why Community Air Quality Monitoring?

• Community organisations are well placed to know
  the locations in their neighbourhood where
  residents are concerned about air pollution.
• This brings the issue of air pollution down to
  local level.
• It has empowered local communities to better
  articulate their concerns about poor air quality,
  traffic and its effects on the communitys
  health and quality of life

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• Data used by local groups to inform Planning
  application concerns
• Data used in articles in Community Newsletters
• Used to support case for public transport
  improvements
• Adds to ES data in areas where there is generally
  no monitoring
• Raised levels indicates many people are living in
  polluted areas

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Future

• Environment Strategy have more funding from DEFRA
  to extend community air quality monitoring to
  other parts of city.
• Continues to informs the debate for the need for
  sustainable transport solutions
• For more information
• email neilparry_at_beeb.net
• telephone [phone]