'No plans' for Coventry pollution charge

Plus parking problems as planners are building with not adequate parking spaces to park for visitors to our properties.

They're not providing enough spaces for residents let alone visitors!

Plus parking problems as planners are building with not adequate parking spaces to park for visitors to our properties.

They're not providing enough spaces for residents let alone visitors!

Very true Dutchman they always have pigeon hole us now they ve built the pigeon huts to go with it.

Holyhead Road loses title of West Midlands' most-polluted



Coventry’s Holyhead Road is no longer the region’s most polluted road – but it remains the biggest offender in the city.

The road was last year named as the most polluted stretch of road in the Midlands when it comes to pumping out nitrogen dioxide (NO2).

It had an annual average NO2 level of 75.6ug/m3 – almost double the legal limit of 40ug/m3 – according to research from Friends of the Earth.

But a data audit by the environmental campaign group based on 2018 numbers – the most recent available – has found that has dropped to 58.4ug/m3.

It is one of 10 roads in Coventry that had higher than legal limits the figure now places it outside the ‘top 10’ most polluting roads in the West Midlands.

St Chad’s in Birmingham has been given the dubious honour of the most polluted, with an average level of 74ug/m3.

Holyhead Road has been targeted in the council’s Air Quality Action Plan to reduce the levels of NO2 by opening up a new link to the ring road on Upper Hill Street, and creating a new Coundon cycle route.

A Coventry City Council spokesman said: “There was a small rise in 2019 but the overall trend is downwards and this can roughly be put down to the use of newer Euro 5 and 6 engines in vehicles, and the weather will always have a significant impact.

"At the same time the NO2 levels on the eastern section of Holyhead Road still exceed the legal threshold, showing that there is still work to do to improve air quality, and that is why the council is putting together its air quality plans as recently approved by the council’s cabinet.”