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Results of Air Quality Action Plan 4 (AQAP4) Consultation

This report seeks the adoption of York’s Fourth Air Quality Action Plan (AQAP4).

Additional documents:

Annex A - AQAP4 Full Document, item 19 PDF 2 MB View as HTML (19/2) 963 KB
Annex B - AQAP4 Consultation Survey Questions, item 19 PDF 284 KB View as HTML (19/3) 106 KB
Annex C - AQAP4 Consultation Responses, item 19 PDF 644 KB View as HTML (19/4) 208 KB
Annex D - AQAP4 Equalities Impact Assessment (EIA), item 19 PDF 664 KB View as HTML (19/5) 105 KB

Decision:

Resolved:

i. Review and noted the comments received in relation to the AQAP4 consultation (see Annex C);

ii. Approved the amendments to the draft AQAP4 and responses made by officers in response to consultation feedback (outlined in this report and in Annex C)

iii. Agreed to formerly adopt the amended AQAP4 circulated with this report as CYC’s Fourth Air Quality Action Plan (Annex A) and submit a final version of the document to DEFRA.

Reason: Adoption of AQAP4 will allow CYC to fulfil its statutory

duties required by the Local Air Quality Management (LAQM) framework under the Environment Act 1995 (as amended). It will ensure that York continues to have a robust, current and relevant Air Quality Action Plan to deliver emission reduction and health improvement benefits over the next 5-year period.

Minutes:

Officers introduced the report detailing the results of the Air Quality Action Plan 4 Consultation and proposed actions to improve air quality.

The Executive Member for Environment and Climate Emergency thanked officers for their work. She noted that concern had been raised that not enough action was proposed on air quality and explained that the action plan would complement other strategies, such as, the Local Transport Strategy which had outcomes which would improve air quality.