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Issue

Issue - meetings

Clean Air Zone - Consultation Feedback.

Meeting: 06/10/2020 - Cabinet (Item 8.)

8. Clean Air Zone - Consultation Feedback. pdf icon PDF 399 KB

Purpose

This report provides an overview of the results of the recent public consultation that sought views on the operation of the charging Clean Air Zone (CAZ) in Portsmouth. In particular this report discusses the results relating to changes to the CAZ boundary.

 

Central Government has imposed a Ministerial Direction on the City Council to deliver a Class B charging CAZ (and other measures) to reduce levels of nitrogen dioxide to comply with at least the legal limit value in the shortest possible time1. Therefore the report explains how the consultation results will be used as part of the council's work to address the requirements of this direction.

 

The report explains how the data collected from the public consultation will be used to inform the final design of the CAZ and the production of Portsmouth's Local Air Quality Plan Final Business Case which must be submitted to central Government later this year.

 

RECOMMENDED that Cabinet:

1.    Approve removal of Kingston Crescent and Fratton Road from the within CAZ boundary.

2.   Approve reduction of the CAZ boundary to remove Fratton Roundabout and Holbrook Road Roundabout

3.    Do not approve the reduction of the CAZ boundary to enable access to the Isle of Wight ferry terminal.

4.    Approve the reduction of the CAZ boundary to fall south of Princess Royal Way.

5.    Do not approve increasing the size of the CAZ to cover the whole of Portsea Island.

6.   Delegate authority to the Cabinet Members for Traffic & Transport and Environment & Climate Change to approve minor changes to the CAZ boundary that may arise as a result of the detailed site surveys which are yet to be undertaken

 

The report that was marked as to follow and the appendices were published on 29 September except for appendix 1 which was published on 5 October.

Additional documents:

Decision:

DECISION

Cabinet:

1.    Noted the consultation responses.

 

2.    Will ask the government once again to fund the practical solutions we asked for to tackle air pollution: car and van scrappage scheme to get the older more polluting cars off the roads, the same level of funding to support public transport, walking and cycling as councils in London get (11 times what Portsmouth gets), half price bus passes for all citizens to encourage people to leave their cars at home. These would make a real lasting difference to air quality and people's health and wellbeing across the whole of Portsmouth

 

3.    If the Government will not accede to these reasonable, sustainable requests then the CAZ should be implemented with the boundaries as in the original consultation document, but removing Kingston Crescent, Fratton Road, Fratton Bridge Roundabout and Holbrook Road Roundabout due to their inclusion resulting only in pollution being shifted to the east and south of the city.

 

4.    Recognised that any CAZ will only be in place to secure compliance for two locations, A3 Alfred Road and A3 Mile End Road/Commercial Road, as per the government guidance and is not intended to address the air pollution, air quality or people's wellbeing issues in the whole of Portsmouth.