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The Bradford Clean Air Schools Programme (CASP) is a Bradford Council initiative funded by the Bradford Clean Air Zone (CAZ). Since launch 48 schools successfully applied for grants and have claimed over £400,000 for projects in place to improve air quality around their school.
Read the full press release on the CASP here.
Look North reporting on the Born in Bradford research that suggests fewer GP visits for respiratory and cardiovascular health
Bradford Council is delighted to read the new NHS research which suggests there is real evidence of an improvement in both respiratory and cardiovascular health and air quality across the city since the launch of the Clean Air Zone (CAZ).
Read the full press release on the health improvements here.
Industry leaders, council officials, stakeholders and climate experts descended on Bradford today (27 September) to discuss how the city’s landmark hydrogen project can be central to the region’s low-carbon future.
Read the full press release for the Hydrogen event here.
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.
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.
£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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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
Read more about the News Round feature here.
Bradford Council is supporting Clean Air Day.
Read the press release about Clean Air Day here.
The Bradford Clean Air Zone will go live on 26 September 2022.
Read the full press release about the go live date here.
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.
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.
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.
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.
