What's New? |
Sheffield Climate Alliance
are taking forward the work on Air Quality in Sheffield. They will engage
with schools, community and faith groups, trade unions and workplace groups and
others to raise awareness about the health effects of air pollution and to
campaign for improvements to air quality. If you want to get involved, or for
more information, please contact
Lauren Jones. |
From 1st April 2018, if you are a member of a community group with
responsibility for changing diffusion tubes and need some advice or equipment,
please contact
Andy Hawkins. If you want
more information about Air Quality Monitoring in Sheffield, see the council
website or contact
the
Air Quality inbox |
Shmapped The
Universities of Derby and Sheffield are inviting Sheffield residents
aged over 18 years old to take part in a project to map the good things
about Sheffield's green and built spaces.
The project uses an app called 'Shmapped' (Sheffield mapped) to try and
understand how urban living affects our wellbeing, help people enjoy
their surroundings, and help our town planners design better spaces.
To take part, download the free Shmapped app from your app store, answer
a few questions about your wellbeing, Shmapped then prompts you once a
day to notice the good things about your surroundings.
This is a great way to get to know Sheffield and to find the good things
in our city!
You can take notes, photos and Shmapped will map the locations of your
good things. After using Shmapped for seven days, you answer the same
questions from the start of the study, and then again after 30 days.
The first 500 Sheffield residents to complete the study (completing
pre-questionnaire, use the app for 7 days and answer the follow up
questionnaire after 7 and 30 days) will each receive a GBP 20 Amazon
voucher as a thank you for participating!
More information can be found here:
Website:
http://iwun.uk/shmapped/
Email:
iwun@sheffield.ac.uk
|
Too much talk and not enough action
- Neil Parry's response to Sheffield City Council's
draft Air Quality Strategy in the Sheffield
Telegraph, 14 December 2017 |
Alex Chinneck:
Why I want to build a set of giant chimneys along a Yorkshire
canal, article in the
Yorkshire Post 12 December 2017 |
Presentations from Minding the Gap's Conference, A Tale of Two
Cities, on Monday 4 December 2017 in Leeds, available
here. Include:
- Health Divides - Where you live can kill
you, Prof Clare Bambra
- Air Pollution - Environmental justice,
social rights and effective action, Paul Lincoln
- Housing, housing conditions and health
inequalities, Dr Stephen Battersby
- The role of our home and our community in
creating health, Juliann Hall
- Health as a planning consideration, Alice
Wiseman
- Low Emission Zone - weighing up the costs,
Sally Jones
- England's health divide, Prof Tim Doran
|
City faces its own dilemmas about air quality which need
addressing, written by John Mothersole,
Sheffield Council Chief Executive, in the
Sheffield Telegraph, 16 November 2017 |
|
It’s time to clear the air -
Sheffield wants to tackle vehicle pollution
Sheffield plans to become
the first council in the North of England to fine
drivers who leave their vehicles running outside schools
-
Yorkshire Post 24
Oct 2017
|
Four 100ft chimney sculptures to line Tinsley
canal -
Sheffield Star 20 Sept 2017 |
Read Ted Gunby's
letter to the
Sheffield Star,
30 August 2017, about the lack of action from Sheffield Council
on air pollution |
Investigation spotlights city's pollution
blackspots
in the Sheffield Star, 24 July 2017 |
Tinsley Meadows Primary becomes a teaching
school Rebecca Webb, CEO
of Tinsley Meadows Primary Academy, given role of national
leader of education -
in the Sheffield Star, 26 July 2017 |
Can you help map the
good things about Sheffield to help improve the cities spaces?
The Universities
of Derby and Sheffield and the Sheffield and Rotherham Wildlife
Trust are inviting Sheffield residents aged over 18 years old to
take part in a project to map the good things about Sheffield’s
green and built spaces.

The
project uses an app called 'Shmapped'
as in 'Sheffield mapped' to try and understand how urban
living affects our wellbeing, help people enjoy their
surroundings, and help our town planners design better spaces.
To
take part, download the free Shmapped app from your app store,
answer a few questions about your wellbeing, Shmapped then
prompts you once a day to notice the good things about your
surroundings. You can take notes, photos and Shmapped will map
the locations of your good things. After using Shmapped for 30
days, you answer the same questions from the start of the study.
The
first 1000 Sheffield residents to complete the study can be
entered into a prize draw to win vouchers from £50-500 with a 1
in 10 chance of winning. More information can be found here
http://iwun.uk/shmapped/
We are planning a series of events and walks with the Wildlife
Trust to share Shmapped
www.wildsheffield.com/shmapped
if you would like us to organise one of these for your
community, or if you would like posters/leaflets to promote the
study in your organisation please get in touch
(k.mcewan@derby.ac.uk). |
20mph zones as
reported in the Sheffield Star, 14-17 July 2017: |
INTRODUCTION TO COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AND HEALTH
COURSE (ICDH) SEPTEMBER 2017
-
Burngreave Vestry Hall,
2 Burngreave Road, Sheffield S3 9DD
Tuesday 12 September 2017, 9.30 – 2.30,
Taster + 15 weeks
-
ShipShape, The Stable,
Sharrow Lane, Sheffield S11 8AE Thursday
14 September 2017, 9.30 – 2.30, Taster + 15 weeks
Contact: Mai 0773 679 3272 or Email
mai.mustaphanin@sheffield.gov.uk
Download flyer |
Traffic-related articles in the Sheffield
Star, June 5-7 2017:
£50M Lorry depot 'needs no environment study',
June 7, 2017
City could ber a 'mini Holland' for cyclists,
June 7, 2107
Is 'Junction 33A' the answer to M1 jams?
June 6, 2017
Scaling back £300m Meadowhall plans,
June 5, 2017 |
REVEALED: Air pollution hot spots in Sheffield where deadly
fumes are more than twice legal limit The
Sheffield Star reveals
Air pollution in Sheffield is up to
two-and-a-half times the legal limit, shocking new figures
show. The latest readings, published at the beginning of May,
were taken from monitors placed across Sheffield as part of the East
End Quality of Life Initiative.
Read Ted Gunby (Carterknowle and Millhouses)
response in his letter to
the Star |
Green wall
yields huge cuts
article in Air Quality Bulletin in May 2017 on
King's College London study |
Community Air Quality Monitoring Graphs
have been updated to show
February and March 2017 data |
Telegraph Voices: How could the air quality
across Sheffield be improved - and why?
Sheffield
Telegraph, 20 April 2017:
- Pollution has been far
too low a priority - Neil Parry, East End Quality of
Life Initiative
- Fossil fuels are at the
centre of a real crisis - Joan Miller, Sheffield Climate
Alliance
- Let's devise a strong
plan and seek Government funding - Peter Sephton,
Sheffield city centre residents action group
- Plants would be destroyed
- Maria Val Martin, Sheffield University
|
Children exposed to air pollution
article in the
Sheffield Star, 6
April 2017 |
Tinsley Time and Travel Heritage Walks
Family Art and History Days Mon 10
April, Thu 13 April, Sat 13 May with Ignite Imaginations |
Air Quality, Noise and Health
since March 2013, we have published monthly
updates of research into the health impacts of air quality and noise.
You can view past copies here:
|
Green Spaces and Health Newsletter An occasional update on research into the
health effects of access to green spaces and exercise. You can
subscribe
to receive updates automatically and you can view past copies here:
|
People, Places and
Health Conference, organized by Minding
the Gap at
the Hilton Sheffield Hotel, Victoria Quays, on 19 September
2016. The presentations from this excellent conference are
available to download here:
-
Buses, Bicycles
and Building for Health: practice-based evidence from the UK,
Dr David
Ogilvie, Programme Leader – Physical Activity and Public
Health, University of Cambridge
-
Come into the
garden … , David
Buck, Senior Fellow, Public Health and Inequalities,
Kings Fund
-
The Built
Environment, Professor
Tim Townshend, Urban Design for Health, Newcastle
University
-
Health
Inequalities and the Built Environment, Sorcha
Daly, Researcher, Institute of Health Equity, University
College London
-
Identifying the
loneliest in our communities, Cllr
Shelagh Marshall OBE,
North Yorkshire County Council and Campaign to End
Loneliness
-
Active by Design:
Designing places for healthy lives, Victor
Callister, Deputy Director of Architecture and the Built
Environment, Design Council CABE
Evaluation
of the conference |
London Air Quality Network Conference, 21 June
2016 - 60 years on from
the Clean Air Act - air pollution in London today.
Presentations are now available. |
|
The Institute of Health Equity
release Marmot Indicators 2015
Fair Society, Healthy Lives, The
Marmot Review of health inequalities in England,
was published in 2010. The review set out the
key areas that needed to be improved to make a
significant impact in reducing health
inequalities. Today the Institute of Health
Equity have launched the Marmot Indicators 2015.
These are a new set of indicators of the social
determinants of health, health outcomes and
social inequality, that broadly correspond to
the six policy recommendations proposed in Fair
Society, Healthy Lives:
1. Give every child the best
start in life
2. Enable all children, young
people and adults to maximise their capabilities
and have control over their lives
3. Create fair employment and
good work for all
4. Ensure healthy standard of
living for all
5. Create and develop healthy and
sustainable places and communities
6. Strengthen the role and impact
of ill health prevention
|
|
Air Pollution
-
Radio 4's
Putting Science to Work -
which technology is best designed
to help us reduce air pollution in our cities? |
Air pollution death toll - 698 people died
prematurely in South Yorkshire in a year
by Ellen Beardmore in
the Star, 23 November 2015
|
BBC Look North
covered the story about unacceptably
high levels of air pollution at the taxi rank at Sheffield's
Midland Station on 3rd November 2015, following distribution of
a leaflet to taxi drivers
encouraging them to switch off their engines when stationary. |
Every Tuesday at midday at St Lawrence Church
enjoy a tasty, nutritious and
sociable lunch, and do your bit to reduce food waste in Tinsley
 |
Schools shut under a cloud of diesel
Jonathan Leake's
article about Tinsley
schools in the Sunday Times, 28 June 2015 |
All choked up: did Britain's dirty air make me
dangerously ill? Read
John Vidal's article in the Guardian, 20 June
2015 |
Committee on the medical effects of air pollution Statement
on the evidence for the effects of Nitrogen Dioxide on
Health
- read report
Evidence
of associations of ambient concentrations of NO2
with a range of effects on
health has strengthened in recent years. These associations have
been shown to be robust to adjustment for other pollutants
including some particle metrics.
Although it is possible that, to some extent, NO 2
acts as a marker of the effects of other traffic-related
pollutants, the epidemiological and mechanistic evidence now
suggests that it would be sensible to regard NO2 as causing some
of the health impact found to be associated with it in
epidemiological studies. |
Poor air quality linked to hospital admissions
Chris Burn, in the Sheffield
Telegraph, 2 April 2015 - read
article |
Air pollution in Sheffield ‘closely
linked’ with heart disease cases
Chris Burn, in the
Sheffield Star 28 March 2015 -
read article
|
Hosted by Care4Air, the eighth Clearer
Future Conference was held in Sheffield at the Hilton Hotel, Victoria Quays, on
Wednesday 25th March.
You can find
links to the presentations
here. |
 |
Pressure on Sheffield drivers to
be more air aware
Ellen Beardmore
reports in
The Star (11 Feb 2015) on
Sheffield Council’s Air Aware campaign which
is aiming to raise awareness about air
pollutants nitrogen dioxide and fine
particulate matter.
|
Air Quality and Health in Sheffield,
Conference, Friday 17th October 2014
Follow the
links to the presentations from
speakers including
Dr Ian Mudway from Kings College London,
Alan
Andrews from Client Earth, and Councillor
Jack Scott from Sheffield City Council. |
Sheffield Green Party councillor calls for
action over air quality ‘crisis’
- article in
the
Sheffield Star
|
Jack Scott presented an eloquent view of air
quality difficulties in Sheffield
to the Environmental Audit
Commission recently, as reported in
Air Quality Bulletin,
October 2014 |
‘Death sentence’ outcry as Sheffield
greenlights Ikea store
- see
report in the Yorkshire Post,
24 June 2014 |
|
Health Impact Assessment Workshops
were held recently in Leeds and
Sheffield. The presentations can be accessed here:
Erica Ison - The basics of health
impact assessment (HIA)
part 1 and
part 2
Sue Wright -
Public Health England (PHE) and HIA Gateway |
The Arts Council has
published a report -
The value of arts and culture to people and society – an
evidence review
Its findings on
Health and Wellbeing include "Those who had attended a cultural
place or event in the previous 12 months were almost 60 per cent
more likely to report good health compared to those who had not,
and theatre-goers were almost 25 per cent more likely to report
good health. Engagement in structured arts and culture improves
the cognitive abilities of children and young people. A number
of studies have reported findings of applied arts and cultural
interventions and measured their positive impact on specific
health conditions which include dementia, depression and
Parkinson’s disease." |
Youth Artwork on display on the Tinsley Canal
The windows of the pump house on the
Tinsley Canal are currently exhibiting artwork done by local
young people from Tinsley Green Youth Club. They worked with
local artist Joe Logan and other volunteers to create huge
pieces of art that reflect their experiences of the canal and
how they would like to see it treated. Find out more on the
River Stewardship
Company's website.
 |

Read
Neil Parry's article about
air pollution in Heeley |
Citizen clean: Campaigners frustrated with the
Government's failure to cut the amount of air pollution are
uniting to tackle 'invisible killer'
If
you live within earshot of the M1 in Sheffield, don't be alarmed
if you spot a furtive character attaching small plastic tubes to
lamp posts and garden fences across the neighbourhood. It's
probably just Neil Parry, a clean air campaigner, and he's not
up to anything sinister, unless you are a developer trying to
build a new road or a supermarket planning a lorry-filled depot.
- read
an article from The Independent, 19 March 2014 |

EEQOL attended the TUC's climate
change conference in London on 21 October 2013. The speeches and
presentations from the event are available
online. |
Citizen Science - local air quality; local
action an
article about
community air quality monitoring by
Neil Parry and
Barbara Rimmington, published in
Chemical Hazards and Poisons Report, September 2013 |
Mapping for Change Air Pollution Conference, London, 17th
April 2013
Neil Parry was
invited to present to an Air Pollution Conference hosted by
Mapping for Change at University College London on 17th
April 2013. The conference was organised for concerned
communities and organisations (mainly London-based). Speakers
included:
-
Murad
Qureshi, Chair of Health & Environment Committee, Greater
London Authority
-
Dr Ian
Mudway, Environmental Research Group, King’s College London
-
Maria
Arnold, Healthy Air Campaign
-
Simon
Birkett, Clean Air for London
-
Neil Parry,
East End Quality of Life Initiative, Sheffield
-
Louise
Francis, Mapping for Change
Links to all the
presentations can be found
here. |
Sheffield urged to clean up its act and save
lives Sheffield was urged
this week to step up its efforts to tackle air pollution for the
sake of residents' health and the local economy - article in the
Sheffield Telegraph 21 February
2013 |
Post
Independence Day
Browse pictures from Frome's Independence Day discussions on
Flickr by following
this link. |

Ted Gunby of Carter
Knowle and Millhouses Community Group and Neil Parry
from East End Quality of Life Initiative attended
Independence Day in Frome Somerset, debating the
future of the High Street, the increasing dominance
of the big four supermarkets and the nature of our
villages, towns and cities, Under discussion:
-
What kind of places
do we want to live and work in?
-
Is there an
alternative to so-called ‘big box’ retailing?
-
How do we ensure
that regeneration and redevelopment include a
central role for independent business and the
interests of local people?
-
How
do we keep a lid on the huge expansion of
supermarkets via campaigning, the planning system,
and local politics?
Ted and Neil
distributed a leaflet
and in discussion informed campaign groups that air
quality and health concerns can be an important weapon
in campaigns to stop supermarkets
See
http://www.independenceday2012.co.uk/ for information,
and
http://www.tescopoly.org/ if you are concerned
about the market-distorting power of the major supermarkets.
|
Traffic pollution obstacle as Tesco plans
superstore (Manor Top)
Sheffield Telegraph 18th October
2012 |
Sainsbury's drop legal bid over superstore
plan (Archer Road)
Sheffield Telegraph, 4th October
2012 Ted Gunby, chair
of Carterknowle & Millhouses Community Group said the decision
was "good news for the neighbourhood", and Neil Parry,
EEQOL, said "developers have to think hard about the air
quality issues raised by developments" |
Sheffield East End Quality of Life's website
was ranked 12th in a
recent review of websites (page 6) in
Air Quality
Bulletin (September 2012). They found it "a fact packed news
site detailing the busy work of Neil Parry and his team" |
|

Listen to Radio 4's File on 4
about
Diesel Pollution,
broadcast 7 Aug 12
(Neil Parry's interview with Julian O'Halloran is about 24
minutes into the programme)
|
Read the
article which appeared in the
Sheffield Star on 9th July 2012
 |
Read the
article which appeared in the
Sheffield Telegraph on 5th July 2012
 |
Pollution health fears
as sun shines on Sheffield
Neil Parry was interviewed on Rony
Robinson's programme on Radio Sheffield, 28 March 2012
(available to listen again from Radio Sheffield for a limited
period, approx 02.35 minutes into the programme).
"Pollution health fears as sun
shines on city" article on 29 March 2012 in
Sheffield Telegraph.
"Air pollution six times over
limit" and "Trapped indoors by air pollution" articles on 2
April 2012 in Sheffield Star.
|
 |
 |
Healthy Air in Sheffield Conference
Friday 2nd December 2011
Comments received:
Thank you
for an excellent morning, I found it extremely interesting
and illuminating, it certainly stimulated a great deal of
valuable discussion during the coffee and lunch breaks.
Jenny Allen, S11 resident
Well done for the coverage but especially for
organising the conference it was excellent. Sylvia Hamilton,
Darnall Forum
The conference was really great, congratulations
for sorting it all out. David Bocking, Pedal Ready
I really enjoyed the conference. The speakers
were all of exceptionally high quality. I will be briefing my
group shortly and planning our next steps. Catriona Mulligan,
Hexham
|
Healthy Air in Sheffield Conference
Friday 2nd December 2011
Presentations available to
download here, from
Lewis Merdler's presentation included
EPUK's film supporting Healthy Air Campaign
Watch the film now
Download
Conference Summary.
|
 |
|
|
 Interview about air pollution and
health in Sheffield on
BBC Look
North, 9 March 2011 |
Traffic fumes may damage babies' breathing
Research at Sheffield Children's
Hospital investigates links between air pollution and babies'
respiratory problems, reported in the
Sheffield Star, 3
March 2011 |
'Radical action' needed to curb city's air
pollution
Sheffield Telegraph 3 March
2011 |
We're being choked
Air pollution blackspots in
Sheffield on the front page of the
Sheffield Star and in the
Opinion column, 28 Feb 2011. |
Carter Knowle & Millhouses Community Group
Campaign against local supermarket
Local concerns about poor air
quality and its effects on health have led to a vigorous
campaign against the development of a supermarket in the area.
Articles appeared in the
Sheffield Telegraph on
3 Feb 2011, and the
Yorkshire
Post on 7 Feb. |
Fumes: Traffic
emissions on Abbeydale Road already breach national
pollution guidelines, a key reason for the planning decision
Published
Date:
03 August 2010 By Ben Spencer The Star
News Reporter
A LONG-running campaign to halt plans to expand a superstore
in the south of Sheffield has succeeded, after councillors
rejected an application for planning permission.
Supermarket
giant Sainsburys wanted to build a two-storey extension at
their Archer Road site in Millhouses, increasing floorspace
by 40 per cent.
Company bosses were encouraged when council officers backed
their plans, but members of a city planning board threw out
the plans on grounds of increased traffic and air pollution.
During a heated town hall meeting residents made impassioned
arguments for both sides.
Patricia Kirk and Marian Price said they had been shopping
at the store for many years and welcomed the 80 new jobs the
company said the extension would provide.
But Kate Stone, governor of Holt House Infant School, said
she was "extremely concerned" about the impact on road
safety and pollution. Amanda Hunn, of nearby Hastings Road,
said small businesses in district shopping centres were
worried about the effect on trade.
Ogo Osammor, Sheffield Council's air quality expert, said
the extension would increase traffic from the site by five
per cent and the impact on air quality would be "minimal".
But councillors were concerned when he said some parts of
Abbeydale Road were already "at or above" the national
guidelines for nitrogen dioxide emissions. Voting against
the plans Coun Mazher Iqbal said: "It is important that we
improve quality of life across the city."
But board chairman Coun John Hesketh said: "I'm certain
Sainsburys will appeal. That appeal will focus on the fact
that this board decided to ignore the advice of our own
officers."
Ted Gunby, chair of the Carterknowle and Millhouses
Community Group, later said the board had made "a courageous
decision".
|
|
Air Pollution and Health in Sheffield on BBC Look North, 6
October 2010 East End Quality of
Life Initiative and Sheffield Primary Care Trust talk about the
burden of air pollution on the health of Sheffield residents -
see the
clip on YouTube. |
|
|
Concerns over air pollution in Tinsley
featured on BBC's Look North on Monday 2 Nov 2009
Follow this
link to
watch the programme (feature starts approx 50 seconds into
programme).
|
Residents protest over traffic
pollution
Concerned
residents confronted motorists making their morning commute into
Sheffield to urge them to cut their car use -
read the full article in the Star, 17 September 2009, and
see
more photos from Tinsley and Darnall. |
Outstanding Contribution to
Improving Air Quality
Neil Parry, Project
Co-ordinator for East End Quality of Life Initiative, recently
received
Care4Air's most prestigious award for his outstanding
contribution to improving air quality in South Yorkshire.

Click
here for
more information and to view Care4Air's video.
Click
here to read David Bocking's
article in the Sheffield Telegraph, 18 June 2008.
 |
Air Quality and
Health Trends in the Community Assembly East
area
Download a booklet with
useful information on air quality, health and neighbourhoods for
the Arbourthorne, Darnall, Manor Castle and Richmond Wards.
|
Air Quality and
Health Trends
East End Quality of Life Initiative has
produced some booklets for the Community Air Quality Monitoring
groups, bringing together air quality and health trends with a
summary of the health effects of air pollution which can be found on the Reports page.
|
Air Quality in Sheffield
Download the latest air quality
graphs for your local community.
Find out more about air quality
in Sheffield.
|
Browse our Photo Gallery
Tinsley Health Week 2009
Installing underfloor insulation in the cellar of a terraced
house in Tinsley
Tinsley in the snow, February 2009
Tinsley insulation advice, February 2009
29
April 2008 Tinsley Forum visit to Crosby Beach and Liverpool
See some
of the events and projects in Darnall and Tinsley that East End
Quality of Life Initiative has been involved in over the years. |