Improving air quality

  Phase one of the redevelopment of Liverpool’s waterfront gateway – The Strand – has been completed. Contractors for Liverpool City Council, who are finalising minor snagging issues, have now removed all barriers on the historic highway. Untouched in its layout...

  When I look out of my office window on the Liverpool waterfront, I see 32 wind turbines far out at sea, harnessing the power of the wind and turning it into electricity to be used in our homes.  While projects like this and others around the UK have been a step...

  Dozens of pollution sensors are to be installed on key roads across the Liverpool City Region in a bid to cut congestion and protect communities from harmful emissions. The sensors, located on major routes in Halton, Knowsley, Liverpool, Sefton, St Helens and...

  The government has backed an innovative low carbon and hydrogen energy project for the North West and North Wales. The HyNet programme today became one of just two carbon capture, usage and storage schemes nationally to be selected for further development by...

  Pupils from twelve schools in Liverpool joined together to hold the Let’s Clear the Air virtual conference in July 2021.  The conference was also attended by representatives and speakers from Liverpool City Council, the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority,...

As part of a number of measures to improve air quality around Liverpool City five new air quality stations, complete with ‘reference method’ chemiluminescent Teledyne API T200 nitrogen dioxide analysers, which measure in real-time, were supplied and installed by...

To boost nature recovery and connect more people to nature in Merseyside and Cheshire, the Mersey Forest, through Community Forest Trust, has been awarded £1,326,700 to deliver its Community Forest programme ‘More From Trees’. The programme will improve biodiversity...

Clean air pioneers provide city with food for thought In a secret bunker, a group of scientists may be on the brink of climate change alchemy! A group of scientists working in a secret underground lab in Liverpool have devised a novel way to improve the city’s air...

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,...