Clean Air Bradford is a grassroots campaigning organisation working to raise awareness of the air pollution problem in Bradford.
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🚨 Reform-led Bradford Council want to scrap the Clean Air Zone in Bradford.
Check out our new post about this on our website:
The Facts: What’s at Stake for Clean Air in Bradford if the CAZ Is Removed?
cleanairbradford.uk/caz-remo…
The Conservatives are bringing a motion to Bradford Council calling on the Reform-led administration to 'end the CAZ scheme as soon as possible'.
The motion also calls into question evidence that the Clean Air Zone brings health benefits to residents.
We reject their claims.
Read more in this weeks The Journal weekly round up.
westyorkshirejournal.co.uk/i…
You can read our response in full, on our website: cleanairbradford.uk/health-h…
"This shows an ambitious clean air zone can drive pollution levels down, rapidly restoring children's stunted lung growth." Prof Chris Griffiths, Queen Mary University of London.
This study in London clearly demonstrates that clean air zones reduce pollution and improve health.
BBC News - Children's stunted lungs show recovery in ultra low emission zone - BBC News
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1l1…
🚛 Cleaner vehicles mean cleaner air and better health, with research showing the benefits are being felt across Bradford – not just inside the Clean Air Zone.
✍️ Read more in our article in @thewyjournal ⬇️
Last week we wrote for @thewyjournal
about the Bradford Clean Air Zone.
The health impact of air pollution is huge - an estimated third of asthma cases in Bradford may be attributable to air pollution.
Just one reason to #KeepTheCAZ
🔗 Find out more ⬇️
Clean Air Bradford retweeted
"Bradford Council's Stephen Place may argue that the CAZ has achieved its aims, but the reality is quite different. Despite the clear progress that has been made, air pollution remains a serious public health challenge in Bradford."
Get the full story below from @cleanairbfd 🚗 ↓
✍️ We're really pleased to have written for @thewyjournal about Bradford's Clean Air Zone and why it should be strengthened, not scrapped.
Link to the article below ⬇️
ℹ️ Clean Air Zone facts:
The Clean Air Zone has led to a significant increase in the number of cleaner vehicles on Bradford's roads🚚🚗🚕
#KeepTheCAZ #KeepBradfordBreathing
"I urge the new administration in City Hall to reconsider their plan to do away with the CAZ and not to gamble with our air quality and our children's lungs."
Shipley MP Anna Dixon joins our calls to #KeepTheCAZ.
💰 Money raised from the Clean Air Zone has to be spent on things that reduce air pollution in Bradford.
🚲 This means projects like the Clean Air Schools programme, EV charging infrastructure and the new LNER e-bike hire scheme.
✔️ CAZ = investment in cleaner air for Bradford.
ℹ️ Clean Air Zone facts.
Pollution levels have reduced since the CAZ was introduced 👇
#KeepTheCAZ
Bradford's Clean Air Zone:
Improves public health ✔️
Reduces pressure on our NHS ✔️
#KeepTheCAZ
Clean Air Bradford retweeted
Guess what? Clean air is good for our health! #KeepTheCAZ
Clean air means better health:
Fewer people getting ill.
Fewer GP visits.
Less pressure on the NHS.
Bradford Council must #KeepTheCAZ
#KeepBradfordBreathing
❌️ Scrapping Bradford's Clean Air Zone would be a serious mistake.
↩️ Now is not the time to go backwards on public health.
⚠️ Bradford's Reform-led administration must #KeepTheCAZ.
