Bradford’s Clean Air Zone is due to come into force this spring. This is to be welcomed as progress towards reducing the harms caused by air pollution. Air pollution is now widely recognised as a significant contributory factor to health problems such asthma, heart disease, cancer and dementia. Poor air quality also tends to affect the… Read More »
On Clean Air Day the campaign group Clean Air Bradford have written to local councillors with wards on the route of the planned ‘Bradford Shipley Route Improvement Scheme’; asking them to back their calls to stop the road widening scheme that they say will worsen air pollution right outside a Primary School. The letter states… Read More »
School Streets needed now to protect children returning to school Clean Air Bradford has called on Bradford Council to put School Streets in place around primary schools in Bradford to protect children, carers and teachers when children return to school. Following Boris Johnson’s announcement on Sunday 10th May that schools would be reopening for some… Read More »
Dear friends Welcome to the second Newsletter of Clean Air Bradford. What is Clean Air Bradford? Clean Air Bradford is a broad alliance of individuals, groups and organisations taking action to improve air quality in the Bradford district. As an informal coalition, it is open to all and supported by Baildon Friends of the Earth – one of the founding groups – who provide any formal governance arrangements Clean Air Bradford might… Read More »