1 / 19

Environmental Inequalities

Environmental Inequalities. Neil Parry East End Quality of Life Initiative. Environmental Equality An environment that provides people with a safe and healthy place to live work and play now and in the future

boone
Download Presentation

Environmental Inequalities

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Environmental Inequalities Neil Parry East End Quality of Life Initiative

  2. Environmental Equality • An environment that provides people with a safe and healthy place to live work and play now and in the future • Environmental policies and plans that don’t have a disproportionately negative impact on one community over another • Equal access to environmental information, participation and decision making for all communities • Environmental inequalities is therefore used to describe situations where these 3 criteria are not met

  3. Environmental inequalities 4 main categories • ‘Front Door’ issues litter, graffiti, heavy traffic, air and noise pollution, fly tipping, access to and quality of local green and open spaces, incidences or fear of crime and anti-social behaviour • Wider service issues such as lack of access to local transport links, poor quality housing, unhealthy food and fuel poverty • Policy and Planning issues such as air quality, environmental noise, road traffic accidents and flood risk • Multiple environmental deprivation considering the ways in which these environmental problems accumulate and combine to affect an area and the wellbeing and quality of life of its residents

  4. Air Quality Green and open spaces Child Road Accidents Touch on Private sector housing Fuel Poverty

  5. Health effects of poor air quality

  6. Triple jeopardy • Socio economic deprivation + • Poorer air quality + • Greater susceptibility to poor air quality

  7. Future trends in England – 2003 vs. 2010

  8. Up to 500 deaths brought forward • Chronic ill health • Children vulnerable • Social costs to Sheffield £160 million

  9. "It is a national scandal that thousands of people are still dying from air pollution in the UK in 2011 –and the government is taking no responsibility for this. It is often the poorest people in our cities who live near the busiest roads and breath in diesel fumes, dangerous chemicals and bits of tyre every day.” • Joan Walley MP introducing the Environmental Audit Committee Report, November 2011

  10. City Council’s Air Quality Action Plan • Low Emission Zone/Strategy • Smarter Travel Choices • More weight given to Air Quality in Planning • 50 MPH speed limit on Motorway • public awareness campaign?

  11. Green and Open Spaces • Quality of Green and open spaces generally worse in poorer areas • Socio-economic deprivation susceptible to health effects of a poor physical environment • Benefits of good quality green space , reduced stress levels, blood pressure, restoration, percieved general health

  12. More projects working with local people to improve local green spaces and parks • Action to reduce fly tipping and litter. • More tree planting

  13. Child Pedestrian Accidents in Sheffield (1 Nov 2005 to 31 Oct 2010) by Ward

  14. 20 MPH zones in all residential areas • Cut accidents encourage walking & cycling • A pleasanter local physical environment • Healthier community

  15. Private Sector Housing • Private Sector Housing: (via Private Sector Housing service) Addressing poor quality housing by building relationships with landlords and tenants, • ensuring adherence to the Council’s Responsible Landlord Scheme, providing advice to new tenants of private sector landlords and advising tenants on acceptable behaviours and expectations. • The project achieved real improvements in the Page Hall Area and as a result there has been a reduction in the number of overcrowding cases and complaints about anti-social behaviour. • Since the funding has come to an end all cases have now been closed and the work has resumed to a reactive rather than a proactive approach.

  16. boom in the market for private sector renting -which in the working class areas of private housing, seems to thrive on the: • absence of regulation which is the consequence of the decline of private sector housing staff to try and do their best to regulate (i.e. conduct casework) a notoriously de-regulated area.  • local authorities have powers to define neighbourhoods and areas as requiring additional powers which would require anyone wanting to rent to register with the LA - • Joseph Rowntree Foundation Report • http://www.jrf.org.uk/publications/uk-migrants-private-rented-sector

More Related