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Bradford school children celebrating Clean Air Day

Press release, 20 June 2024

On Clean Air Day we hosted over 60 children from ten Bradford schools to learn about air quality, the environment and how air pollution affects our health.

Read the full press release for Clean Air Day here.

Clean Air Schools programme will reduce air pollution in the district

Press release, 20 March 2024

Bradford Council will be distributing over £444,000 of funding from the Clean Air Zone to 48 Bradford schools who have submitted applications to reduce air pollution around their local area.

Read the full press release on CASP Grant Funding here.


Bradford Clean Air Zone £4m grant funding for fully electric Bradford licenced taxi vehicles

Press release, 30 November 2023

£4.1 million of Clean Air Zone grant funding is now available for the Bradford Licenced taxi trade to assist with the running costs of a fully electric hackney Carriage or Private Hire Vehicle. Applicants can choose to purchase or take out a long-term lease (minimum 2 years lease at time the grant agreement is signed and returned) to be eligible for the grant.

Read the full press release about EV taxi grants here.


Look North news coverage

News feature on Lowest Levels of Air Pollution, 22 September 2023

Reporting on our automatic monitoring sites in the Clean Air Zone showing some of the lowest levels of NO2 recorded since records began in Bradford.


Lowest levels of air pollution ever since introduction of Bradford Clean Air Zone

Press release, 21 September 2023

Automatic monitoring sites in the Clean Air Zone, our most accurate equipment are showing some of the lowest levels of NO2 recorded since records began in Bradford, this is despite traffic now returning to pre-pandemic levels.

Read the full press release about the levels of air pollution here.


Look North news coverage

News feature on Clean Air Day, 15 June 2023

Clean Air Day saw Look North visit us to see schools from across Bradford pitching their ideas to reduce air pollution.


IQRA Primary Academy school are the winners at reducing air pollution

Press release, 15 June 2023

IQRA Primary Academy school team was announced as being the winners of the IVE Applied Creativity Labs competition to pitch their ideas to reduce air pollution.

Read the full press release about IQRA Primary Academy School here.


Clean Air Zone grant funding for Bradford residents and local businesses and organisations

Press release, 14 June 2023

To further support the upgrade of vehicles, Bradford Council have now extended the eligibility criteria so that Bradford residents can now apply for part of the £10m funding available to LGVs and minibuses. The funding is available to help residents upgrade their vehicles to meet the Clean Air Zone (CAZ) standards this includes vans, minibuses and motor caravans.

Read the full residents grants press release here.


Clean Air Day 2023: Clean up our air to look after your mind this #CleanAirDay

Press release, 13 June 2023

Cleaning up our air is good for us in many ways: it not only benefits our physical health and the environment but can also protect our mental and brain health. The physical health impacts of air pollution – such as asthma, heart disease and cancers – have been recognised for decades. More recently, researchers are beginning to understand how air pollution can affect the brain and the mind.

Read the full press release about Clean Air Day 2023.


Clean Air Zone funds approach to create cleaner air around schools

Press release, 26 May 2023

Bradford Council is launching a Clean Air Schools programme to improve air quality around schools, this will be the first programme funded with Clean Air Zone revenue. A report on the new Clean Air Schools programme, set to go to the Council’s Executive to be approved on Tuesday, sets out the plans to provide cleaner air for schools via a comprehensive package of engagement, education and awareness raising as well as grants for individual schools.

Read the full press release about the Clean Air Schools programme.


Shipley CE Primary School pupils are pitching their ideas to reduce pollution

Press release, 24 April 2023

Children from Shipley CE Primary have taken part in an Applied Creativity Lab workshop to find new ways to reduce air pollution. During a nine-week period the children created and developed their ideas ready to present to an Industry Panel at their school. During this ‘Dragon’s Den’ style event, several groups of children introduced their unique ideas, answered questions and battled it out for points. The winning group is now ready for the grand final pitch event on Clean Air Day in June 2023.

Read the full press release about the workshop.


Clean Air Zone grant funding allocated for fully electric Bradford licenced taxi vehicles

Press release, 17 March 2023

Grant funding for fully electric Bradford licenced taxi vehicles will be available from May 2023 to assist Bradford licensed vehicle proprietors with the purchase, lease or running costs of a fully electric hackney Carriage or Private Hire Vehicle.

Read the full press release about the funding.


Bradford Clean Air Zone and the results of traffic flow monitoring

Press release, 8 February 2023

The monitoring that took place prior to the CAZ launch and on 2 occasions after the launch (October and November 2022) indicates that there is no significant increase in the percent of commercial traffic across all of the displacement monitoring sites.

You can read the full press release about the traffic flow monitoring here.


Children in Bradford schools are pitching their ideas to reduce air pollution

Press release, 6 January 2023

Wycliffe CE Primary pupils are taking part in an Applied Creativity Lab workshop to help children and young people find new ways to reduce air pollution.

You can read the full press release about Wycliffe CE Primary School here.


Bradford’s work in combatting air pollution and improving children’s health is praised by England’s top doctor

Bradford has been praised by England’s top doctor for the way it is improving the community’s health, especially among children, by reducing air pollution.

Professor Sir Chris Whitty, Chief Medical Officer for England, paid a fact-finding visit to the city in the spring for a first hand insight into the way it is breaking new ground in improving air quality.

In his annual report published yesterday (Thursday December 8), he has heralded the partnership between Bradford Council, the Born in Bradford (BiB) research project based at Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and public health teams as an example of best practice.

You can read the full report here: www.gov.uk/government/publications/chief-medical-officers-annual-report-2022-air-pollution


Look North news coverage

News feature on air quality, 16 June 2022


Clean Air Day 2022: Air pollution impacts the whole body says charity

News Round feature, 16 June 2022

Read more about the News Round feature here.


Clean Air Day is on 16 June 2022

Press release, 13 June 2022

Bradford Council is supporting Clean Air Day.

Read the press release about Clean Air Day here.


Bradford Clean Air Zone will be launched on 26 September 2022

Press release, 1 June 2022

The Bradford Clean Air Zone will go live on 26 September 2022.

Read the full press release about the go live date here.


You can apply for Clean Air Zone exemptions from today

Press release, 11 April 2022

The process to apply for an exemption is now open for Bradford District residents and businesses with non-compliant vehicles and certain businesses based outside the District. Getting an exemption means that they will not have to pay to drive in the Bradford Clean Air Zone.

Read the full press release about the exemptions here.


New funding of £1.7m available for Bradford taxi owners

Press release, 22 December 2021

A new funding of £1.7m to increase the electric vehicle grants is now available for taxis.

Read the full press release about the funding here.


Bradford Clean Air Zone to be launched in Spring 2022

Press release, 22 December 2021

The lead in period for the Clean Air Zone (CAZ) has been extended. Instead of being introduced in January, the CAZ will be launched in Spring 2022.

Read the full press release about the launch here.


Channel 4 news coverage – 19 October 2021

Children from St Stephen’s Primary and Dr Jim McQuaid were interviewed and sum up perfectly why Bradford needs to focus on clean air and tackle pollution issues.