Clean
Making Sheffield Cleaner
This how we are going about working to achieve this:
- Help us clean up Sheffield in the BID Annual Spring Clean: ....in March there is a call for volunteers to take part in a clean-up of the city centre. Complete our Home Page Contact Form to join us.
- We are able to remove graffiti from your building FREE, with the landlord's permission. Contact us for details.
Got an idea? Have your say, or come to a meeting! We can't do it alone! If you want it to happen, we need to work together.
Cleaning Sheffield’s Polluted Air
Sheffield City Council is considering measures to clean up our polluted air. Council suggestions include a 20 mph speed limit inside the inner ring road and a ban on idling engines in stationary vehicles.
What suggestions do you have? Changing Sheff is looking for ideas. Please let us have yours.
City centre air is dirty. In 2006 the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) assigned a health standard for particulate matter = PM 2.5 of maximum 35 micro-grams per cubic metre (µg/m³) because levels above 35µg/m³ are associated with significantly higher health and mortality risks.
The University roundabout at Brook Hill is on this 35 limit, Abbeydale Road corridor and Netherthorpe are around 45, Duke Street and Park Square roundabout are around 50, Shoreham Street is over 50. Being inside a car is little protection from these particulates. Our main road problem is caused primarily by car, bus, truck and taxi engine emissions, in particular diesels.
Changing Sheff campaining for you
An article in Sheffield Telegraph by Changing Sheff Chair Peter Sephton, April 20, 2017:
Changing Sheff (SCCRAG) represents people living in the city centre, so air quality is a priority. My three-year-old grand-daughter suffers breathing problems and when Sheffield’s air pollution is bad, her attacks are frightening.
Sheffield has blackspots where pollutant levels have hardly changed over 10 years.
How can Sheffield encourage changes? How do we reduce emissions from cars, taxis, buses and trucks?How can we encourage use of hybrid or electric vehicles?.
Where are the places we should try not to drive? How clean is the air around each school? Can we display local pollution levels, like a roadside monitor? London sets the pace – its 2020 Ultra Low Emission Zone is a central area within which all vehicles will meet strict standards or pay a daily charge to travel.How can Sheffield encourage changes? How do we reduce emissions from cars, taxis, buses and trucks? Stagecoach introduced some hybrid buses.
What suggestions do you have? Changing Sheff is looking for ideas. Please let us have yours.
Council suggestions include a 20 mph speed limit inside the inner ring road and a ban on idling engines in stationary vehicles.
Do you support the 20mph limit? And the ban on idling engines?