Decision details
Air Quality Update
Decision Maker: Executive Member For Neighbourhood Services and Advisory Panel
Decision status: Decision Made
Is Key decision?: No
Is subject to call in?: Yes
Decision:
Members considered a report which provided an update on the outcome of the recent Air Quality Support Grant (AQSG) applications made to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA). Three AQSG bids were made in relation to the council’s ongoing Local Air Quality Management (LAQM) work. The report provided an overview of the planned expenditure of the AQSG and required a decision to be taken on the amount of AQSG to be accepted from DEFRA.
In March 2006 officers submitted three AQSG bids to DEFRA to support the council’s air quality work during 2006/2007. The amounts bid for were:
Air quality monitoring = £25,000
Air quality modelling = £43,000
Air quality action planning = £59,000
Due to a national shortfall in the amount of grant available, York had been provisionally allocated the following amounts of AQSG for 2005/2006:
Air quality monitoring = £10,000
Air quality modelling = £15,000
Air quality action planning = £30,000
Two options were presented to Members:
(a) To accept air quality grants from DEFRA totalling £55,000 and allow the air quality projects outlined in the report to proceed.
(b) To reject some or all of the air quality grants from DEFRA and revise the planned air quality projects for 2006/2007 accordingly.
Advice of the Advisory Panel
That the Executive Member be advised that
(i) Option (a) should be accepted and staff be thanked for their hard work in progressing LAQM
(ii) Option (b) should be refused
Decision of the Executive Member
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RESOLVED: |
That the advice of the Advisory Panel be accepted and the suggested decision above be endorsed.
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REASON: |
It represents the most appropriate way of funding the continuation of LAQM in the city. This is a statutory undertaking that contributes towards the corporate priorities on improving the health of residents and encouraging the use of public, and other environmentally friendly, modes of transport.
No other source of funding for LAQM has been identified. Refusal to accept all, or part of, the provisional grant would limit progress on corporate priorities relating to health and transport.
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Publication date: 27/07/2006
Date of decision: 26/07/2006
Decided at meeting: 26/07/2006 - Executive Member For Neighbourhood Services and Advisory Panel
Effective from: 29/07/2006
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