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Environment news

City of Nature Plan must be accepted by Cabinet to meet ´ºÓêÖ±²¥'s net-zero carbon target

´ºÓêÖ±²¥ City Council will be recommending, on 8 February, that its Cabinet approves a 25-year City of Nature Plan to change the way it manages its parks, for environmental health recovery.

Published 31st January 2022.

• Hydrogen buses coming to ´ºÓêÖ±²¥ next Spring

  ´ºÓêÖ±²¥ City Council has purchased 20 new hydrogen double decker buses as part of their Clean Air Hydrogen Bus Pilot.

  

  Published 5th October 2020.

• Statement regarding Car Free Day

  Below is a statement from the council regarding the ´ºÓêÖ±²¥ Car Free Day event due to take place on 22 September:

  Published 9th September 2019.

• ´ºÓêÖ±²¥ climate taskforce announced

  A taskforce is being set up to draw up an action plan setting out how ´ºÓêÖ±²¥ will tackle climate change and become carbon neutral by 2030.

  Published 6th September 2019.

• Car Free School Streets are coming to ´ºÓêÖ±²¥

  A pioneering scheme that closes roads around schools to motorised traffic for up to an hour at the start and end of the school day is being piloted in ´ºÓêÖ±²¥ from this September.

  Published 9th July 2019.

• Joint statement from ´ºÓêÖ±²¥ City Council and Leeds City Council regarding Clean Air Zone delays

  The introduction of the UK’s first Clean Air Zones is to be significantly postponed due to a Government delay in delivering digital systems required to make the zones operational and enforceable.

  Published 18th June 2019.

• Mother and son sentenced for animal cruelty

  A ´ºÓêÖ±²¥ mother and son have been sentenced after causing unnecessary suffering to an English bull mastiff which was found in a condition described by magistrates as ‘horrific’.

  

  Published 29th April 2019.

• Government approval for ´ºÓêÖ±²¥ Clean Air Zone plans

  ´ºÓêÖ±²¥ City Council’s plan for a Clean Air Zone to help tackle the problem of air pollution in the city has received Government approval.

  Published 13th March 2019.

• Council to consult on Clean Air Strategy for ´ºÓêÖ±²¥

  Cabinet is set to agree the launch of a consultation seeking the city’s input into a wide-ranging strategy to help deliver cleaner air across the whole of ´ºÓêÖ±²¥.

  Published 11th January 2019.

• Council publishes Full Business Case for ´ºÓêÖ±²¥ Clean Air Zone

  ´ºÓêÖ±²¥ City Council has published its final proposals for a Clean Air Zone to help tackle the problem of air pollution in the city.

  Published 7th December 2018.

• Hall Green fly-tipping incident costs man his van

  A Tipton man who was linked to a fly-tipping case in Hall Green earlier this year has been ordered to pay £3,620 and to forfeit his van by ´ºÓêÖ±²¥ Magistrates’ Court.

  Published 22nd October 2018.

• Clean Air Zone consultation plans to go before Cabinet

  Cabinet is being asked to give the go-ahead for the council to consult on plans to reduce air pollution in ´ºÓêÖ±²¥ and protect the health of those who live and work in the city.

  Published 19th June 2018.

• Cleaner cabs project scoops National Air Quality Award

  A pioneering project to retrofit Hackney carriages in ´ºÓêÖ±²¥ with cleaner, greener LPG (liquefied petroleum gas) engines has won a national award.

  Published 24th November 2017.