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Public Question Time (15 minutes)

Meeting: 08/12/2021 - Cabinet (Item 58)

Public Question Time (15 minutes)

The opportunity is given to members of the public to put questions to Cabinet Members or Committee Chairs provided that a question does not relate to:

 

·       Matters which are the subject of current or pending legal proceedings, or

·       Matters relating to employees or former employees of the Council or comments in respect of individual Council Officers

 

If you would like to ask a question at this meeting, it must be submitted to

democratic.services@gloucester.gov.uk by 12 noon on Thursday 2nd December 2021. Please telephone 01452 396203 if you require any support.

Minutes:

Concerning the Council’s stations for monitoring air quality in the City, a member of the public asked where, how frequently and for what gasses measurements are taken.  The Cabinet Member for Environment replied that traffic emissions are monitored using static diffusion tubes which are changed monthly and reports made on the annual average levels of nitrous oxides.  He directed the member of the public to the detailed reports published on the City Council website where a list of monitoring sites may be found, the link for which had already been supplied (https://www.gloucester.gov.uk/environment-waste-recycling/pollution/air-quality/).  The Cabinet Member for Environment expressed his own pleasure in this year’s detected emissions being lower than the last and that they had been below the recognised level for concern for some years.