Decision details

Sarah Newman, Business Unit Manger Environmental Health & Trading Standards Air quality, and Paul Newman, Team Leader, Environmental Protection Team, presented the report circulated.

The following points were made in the subsequent discussion:  

·  Is the dominance of the car the underlying driver of transport emissions? Southwark is promoting car free development. Car ownership is particularly low in north of the borough, where the majority of people do not have access to a car.  There is publically available information on car ownership.

·  Low Emissions Neighbourhoods are taking place on Walworth Road and having a positive effect on air quality.

·  Promoting schemes such as Peddle Me and Electric Vehicle (EV) cargo bike charging are useful ways of reducing emissions from transport freight.

·  EV cars still produce emissions and perpetuate the dominance of the car and are not the solution, whereas the 15 minute city, being pursued by Paris, does offer a viable solution by localising services. An intermediated step is EV car clubs.

·  A recent report indicated that increased working from home because of Covid 19 has positively impacted on emissions.

·  The briefing on CPZ permits doses not fully address the information  requested by the Commission previously on  parking provision by Ward , on both roads and estates.

·  A central resource setting out emissions, parking, transport schemes e.t.c would be helpful, and this is something that is being addressed by the Climate Emergency strategy, information and governance work.

·  The Transport .Policy team do make use of car flow data from monitors, which are currently used in cases of emergency, and there is a digital future work stream planned.