Air Pollution on and around Horn Lane. What will be DONE
A response from Bojo our glorious Mayor of LondonThank you for your email to the Mayor of London. I am the GLA's Air Quality Manager and have been asked to reply on his behalf.I understand your concern about air pollution at Horn Lane and appreciate that this has a significant impact on the quality of life of you and other residents in the surrounding area. Please let me reassure you that the Mayor is committed to improving air quality across London and Horn Lane has been a focus of attention for some time. This has involved a partnership between the Environment Agency, the London Borough of Ealing, the Greater London Authority, Transport for London and, more recently, Crossrail. Over the past few years significant progress has been made and additional action is planned. To give you one example, as part of the Mayor's Clean Air Fund Horn Lane was part of a trial of innovative dust suppressant technology. Research undertaken by King's College London found that the application of Calcium Magnesium Acetate (CMA) at the site reduced concentrations of PM10 by up to 59%. More details of other measures taken to improve air quality at and around Horn Lane can be found in the attached amenity action plan, which has been prepared by the Environment Agency. I have also copied a senior officer at the Environment Agency, Chris Lowe, so he is aware of our correspondence.Despite the progress that has been made, the Mayor accepts that recently concentrations of air pollution at Horn Lane have been too high. For this reason the GLA will be jointly hosting a meeting with the Environment Agency in the next month, bringing together all the key partners. We will be considering many of the issues that you raise and hope to identify additional firm steps that can be taken to deliver further improvements. I am happy to email you again after the meeting to update you on what further action is planned.More generally, the Mayor has put in place an ambitious package of measures to improve air quality in London. This includes tighter Low Emission Zone standards, retiring the oldest, most polluting taxis and cleaning up the bus fleet. Together these measures have already reduced emissions of PM10 by 15% and emissions of NOx by 20%. While further improvements are needed before all EU limit values are consistently met across the Capital, clearly these are important steps in the right direction. I hope that this letter has provided some reassurance that the Mayor treats this issue very seriously and steps are being taken to improve the situation at Horn Lane. I will email again to give you a further update after the GLA/Environment Agency meeting next month. In the meantime, please let me know if you have any other questions I can assist you with.Kind regardsElliot TreharneAir Quality ManagerGreater London Authority
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