southbristolvoice www.southbristolvoice.co.uk Reports from your councillors – Southville 28
October 2016
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HE Green Party has a picture of campaigners Glenn Vowles, Graham Davey and Gundula Charlie Dorey standing Bolton at Three Lamps Green, junction wearing Southville a gas mask. The picture was taken in 1990. There is another picture of me from the 1990s dressed up as a mad hatter, partaking in a Mad Hatters Pollution Tea Party. Air pollution has been an issue for years, and the links with the diseases or illnesses it causes get more alarming. Dementia is the most recent I have seen, but cancer, heart disease, asthma, respiratory disease and mental health issues have all been linked to poor air quality. To be fair, it has improved a bit over the years. But the city breaks EU limits for the annual mean level of nitrogen dioxide at well over half the sites in which it is measured. And for the
particulate pollutant PM2.5 there is no known safe limit. Globally, air pollution has been estimated to cost £5 trillion dollars per year. (I can’t even think how many noughts that is!). In the UK it costs 40,000 lives per year, and a few hundred of these are in Bristol. The most significant local source is from vehicle emissions. Greens put in an amendment to last year’s budget to establish a Clean Air Zone, by defining where it should go and how it should work. It was voted down by the Tories and Labour on the pretext that they knew what they wanted. Since then, nothing. So we intend to campaign to make sure they introduce such a zone. We will be asking how many people have to die before they take action. And we will be putting pressure on them both inside and outside the council. We want to hear what you think. To see our survey go to our website bristolgreenparty.org.uk and find the air pollution campaign. Thanks in anticipation.
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OU will know by now that more council cuts are happening as an (apparently unexpected) £29 Stephen million needs to Clarke be found. There Green, is talk of 1,000 Southville council jobs being lost (out of about 7,000) and protests by the unions and others (including my own Green group of councillors). Many of you will think it is a shame but won’t really think it will have a huge impact on you personally. So; to paraphrase John Cleese; what has the council ever done for us? The services that most of us will be aware of are rubbish collection (including recycling), some schools, libraries, sports centres (nine of them), allotments (over 100 areas), parks and museums (six of these) and council homes (27,000 tenants). We might also be aware that the council runs the planning
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