Good news! Official figures show that in the second year of the city centre Clean Air Zone (CAZ) air pollution has continued to reduce right across Newcastle. On average air pollution readings are now 22% lower compared to 2021 and 2022, with only two remaining locations over legal limits. Concerns that the CAZ would "move the problem around" or that reducing car lanes would have a negative effect have proved to be unfounded. Read more [...] Air Quality Update 2024
Good news! Official figures show that in the second year of the city centre Clean Air Zone (CAZ) air pollution has continued to reduce right across Newcastle. On average air pollution readings are now 22% lower compared to 2021 and 2022, with only two remaining locations over legal limits. Concerns that the CAZ would "move the problem around" or that reducing car lanes would have a negative effect have proved to be unfounded. Read more [...] 
Official figures show that air pollution has reduced right across Newcastle in the first year of the city centre Clean Air Zone (CAZ). On average air pollution readings are 16% lower compared to 2021 and 2022, with only a few remaining locations over legal limits. Not only that, air quality has improved both within the CAZ and right across the city. Concerns that pollution would increase outside the CAZ have proved to be unfounded. 
This is SPACE for Gosforth's seventh annual pollution blog covering official air quality monitoring in Newcastle upon Tyne. In all seven years, air pollution in Newcastle has exceeded legal limits. In 2022, the highest reading was 92μg/m3, over double the limit. 
This is our sixth annual pollution blog covering official air quality monitoring in Newcastle upon Tyne. In all six years, air pollution in Newcastle has exceeded legal limits. In 2021, the highest reading was 98μg/m3, over double the limit. 
In this blog we assess the impact of Haddricks Mill roadworks and closing Dene Bridge to motor vehicles.
It is now over eighteen months since wands were installed on Gosforth High Street as part of the Council's response to Covid. This blog looks beyond the look and feel of the wands, focusing instead on their impact on traffic volumes, air pollution and road safety, and suggests specific actions that could be taken to help the High Street thrive in future. 
It should be no surprise to anybody that air quality improved in 2020. In March 2020, the Guardian reported that that the Coronavirus pandemic had led to a huge drop in air pollution right around the world. Newcastle was no different. 
Air quality in Newcastle and Gosforth remains poor and, despite a 2018 court order requiring government to ensure legal limits are met as soon as possible, the Government has still not confirmed that Newcastle can implement its Air Pollution Plan to rid Newcastle of illegal air pollution. Since 2010, when current regulations took effect, thousands of people have died and many more made ill because of the failure to address air pollution in Newcastle.
This blog summarises the official NO2 air 
The Government and Council's initial response to COVID-19 has been, quite rightly, to ensure people are safe and well, protect jobs and critical services, and to minimise the spread of the virus. Already by mid-April 2020 the virus has killed thousands of people in the UK alone, and left unchecked would kill many many more.