Improving air quality

Liverpool will be monitoring the air that we breathe in real time all day tomorrow (Thursday, 20 June) – as the city marks Clean Air Day. A specially commissioned Air Quality Monitoring Vehicle (AQMV), supplied by air data specialists Enviro Technology, will be on...

An innovative giant living wall, part of a global effort to increase green space in city centres, has been approved by Liverpool City Council. The installation, one of the largest outside of London, will stretch across the outside of the upper floor of St...

LIVERPOOL City Council has been awarded an additional £652,000 by the Government to complete its clean air plan. The money will be used to accelerate the preparation of the document, which needs to be finished by the end of October, and is in addition to...

A total of nine projects which will improve green and open spaces across Liverpool are set to receive cash from planning agreements made with developers.The schemes, which have a total value of £1.2 million, will receive £523,837 of Section 106 funding,...

The Mayor of Liverpool is to appoint the city’s first Climate Change champion to the city council’s cabinet.Councillor Laura Robertson-Collins has been chosen to take up the role on the day the city is set to declare a Climate Change Emergency at a special...

A Liverpool City Council team is causing a real buzz on the green scene after swapping its diesel-driven fleet of vans for cleaner electric vehicles.The pest control crew are out and about five days a week, visiting homes, businesses and public buildings...

Liverpool City Council has taken delivery of 17 hybrid cars, as part of the local authority’s commitment to reducing emissions.The Hyundai Ioniq’s replace a mixture of diesel and petrol cars and vans and will be used by highways inspectors and parking...

2019 has been officially declared as the Year of the Environment for the Liverpool City Region.The Year of Action for the Environment will be led by the Liverpool City Region’s Local Nature Partnership, Nature Connected along with the Combined Authority,...

A public debate has been launched to find out what people in the city region think about the bus system.The government is in the process of devolving new powers over how our buses operate.This public conversation will help inform how those powers are used...

People in Liverpool can now benefit from an innovative on-demand app-based public transport service operated by leading passenger transport provider Arriva. ArrivaClick combines the cost effectiveness of bus travel with the convenience of personalised...

A PUBLIC health campaign outlining the steps people can take to mitigate the impact of air pollution has been launched in Liverpool.  Let’s Clear the Air Liverpool outlines the stark health consequences of pollution caused mainly by cars and also industry....

Mayor Joe Anderson has committed to reducing air pollution and making Liverpool a place where walking, cycling, electric vehicles and clean fuels will dominate, and from which polluting diesel traffic will be discouraged, to protect the health of Liverpool...