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Four Elms Hill Air Quality Action Plan

Meeting: 23/08/2022 - Cabinet (Item 4)

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Minutes:

This report presented the Air Quality Action Plan (AQAP) for the Four Elms Hill Air Quality Management Area (AQMA) to the Cabinet for approval. The AQAP had been produced to satisfy the requirements of the Environment Act 1995.

The report advised that the Four Elms Hill Air Quality Action Plan supported delivery of the Council’s strategic priority ‘Medway: A place to be proud of’ and the key outcome of a ‘clean and green environment’. The Plan also supported the Climate Change Action Plan as a measure within the Action Plan.

A Diversity Impact Assessment had been undertaken in relation to the Plan, details of which were set out in Appendix 2 to the report.

The report had been considered by the Regeneration, Culture and Environment Overview and Scrutiny Committee on 11 August 2022 and its comments were set out in an addendum report. This included an additional recommendation that had been made by the Committee in relation to the provision of a dedicated cycle lane on Four Elms Hill.

*Decision* *number:*	*Decision:*
	The Cabinet noted the comments of the Regeneration, Culture and Environment Overview and Scrutiny Committee set out in the addendum report.
99/2022	The Cabinet approved the Four Elms Air Quality Action Plan, attached at Appendix 1 to the report.
	The Cabinet noted the following recommendation from the Regeneration, Culture and Environment Overview and Scrutiny Committee: ‘The Committee requested the Cabinet to bring forward the dedicated cycle lane on Four Elms Hill.’
100/2022	The Cabinet agreed that construction of the cycle way would be carried out in Spring 2023.

Reasons:

Approval of the Four Elms Air Quality Action Plan (AQAP) will fulfil the Council’s statutory duty, under the Environment Act 1995, to develop and implement an AQAP.