Sheffield's Clean Air Zone raises more than £7m in first year

Coun Ben Miskell discusses Sheffield Clean Air Zone which raised more tan £7m in its first year

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00:00 We are taking the income that is generated from the clean air zone and

00:05 reinvesting it back out into communities, into projects like school streets and

00:10 actually I think that people across Sheffield would support the direct link

00:15 between people paying a charge to use the clean air zone and of course we know

00:19 that private vehicles are not subject to that charge and reinvesting that money

00:23 into protecting the most vulnerable in society. We have just announced a

00:29 plan of £1 million into the Clean Air Investment Fund. We are making sure

00:35 that that goes to support some of the most vulnerable in our society and we're

00:39 focusing it on schools so we've introduced school streets which means

00:43 closing off a road outside schools just before school and just after school. Now

00:49 that has an impact on safety but also on air quality outside schools. We're

00:53 introducing temporary 20 mile an hour zones outside some schools as well and

00:58 we're also investigating clean living green walls in schools so if you're a

01:05 school and you'd like to work with us on any of those projects then we'd

01:09 encourage you to get in touch.