2. 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 Air Quality team
3. • In 2003 City Council’s Air Quality
team got DEFRA funding that
enabled the Community Air Quality
Monitoring to by extended city
wide.
• East End Quality Of Life Initiative
asked to co-ordinate role out to
other parts of city
4. What the community
organisations do
each month
• change the diffusion
tubes. (up to 5 sites
usually)
• 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
10. Why Community Air Quality
Monitoring?
• community organisations are well placed to
know the locations in their neighbourhood where
residents are concerned air pollution and its
Health effects.
• 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 community’s health
and quality of life
11. • Surge of Supermarket Planning
applications
• Used media to show air pollution not
just a issue around M1 Motorway which
engaged other local groups
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16. Sheffield Director of
Public Health wrote
letter calling for
Council to reject
planning application
Sheffield City Council
Planning Department
strengthen procedures to
better protect areas with
air quality issues
17. Local Community Organisations
on Working Group developing
action Plan
Requires tenacious lobbying of
Council about implementation
plan
Health and Well being Board
could be important in raising air
quality and health profile
