{"id":29108,"date":"2016-12-07T09:38:24","date_gmt":"2016-12-07T09:38:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/?p=29108"},"modified":"2023-03-11T18:13:47","modified_gmt":"2023-03-11T18:13:47","slug":"housebuilders-can-help-air-pollution-bre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/housebuilders-can-help-air-pollution-bre\/29108\/","title":{"rendered":"Housebuilders can help with air pollution, says BRE New Homes lead"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Following air quality warnings in London, BRE New Homes and Communities Team Lead Gwyn Roberts explains how housebuilders can help tackle air pollution<\/h2>\n<p>In London yesterday the Mayor urged <a href=\"http:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/news\/london\/londoners-warned-not-to-drive-as-french-pollution-hits-capital-a3412191.html\">people not to drive<\/a> as air pollution hit the capital, and only last week, the air quality was deemed \u2018poor\u2019 with pollution levels assessed as \u2018high\u2019. Parents were advised to \u2018<a href=\"http:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/news\/health\/parents-warned-over-taking-babies-outside-in-london-as-air-pollution-levels-soar-a3409616.html\">take care<\/a>\u2019 when taking their babies outside and to \u2018take it easy\u2019 when doing outdoor sports, cycling and eating al fresco.<\/p>\n<p>In line with these recurrent issues, Sadiq Khan has just announced a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/bike-blog\/2016\/dec\/05\/sadiq-khan-to-spend-770m-on-london-cycling-initiatives\">\u00a3770 million cycling initiative<\/a> to discourage car use, whilst in the Autumn Statement, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/autumn-statement-reveals-housing-investment\/28858\">Chancellor announced \u00a32.3 billion for new housing infrastructure<\/a>, in order to attempt to control traffic jams and the poor health associated with pollution. This must be invested in sustainable transport options.<\/p>\n<p>With these positive initiatives in place, we now need to ensure that where this money is spent on transport, sustainable options are favoured and that front-runners in the housebuilding industry are given the necessary recognition.<\/p>\n<h3>Reducing air pollution with sustainable transport links<\/h3>\n<p>Curo for example is planning a cable car to link its new development with the centre of Bath and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebeacondevelopment.co.uk\/\">Lumiere Developments<\/a>,\u00a0building the world\u2019s most sustainable residential tower in Hemel Hempstead, is offering residents an on-site dedicated electric pay-as-you-go car share scheme which can remove as many as 25 cars for every one car share. The scheme also provides residents with electric bike hire as an alternative option. In Greater Manchester, there is a planned extension to the Metrolink tram to the Trafford Centre <a href=\"http:\/\/www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk\/business\/property\/peel-submits-1bn-trafford-waters-8966013\">where 3,000 new homes are planned at Trafford Waters<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.homequalitymark.com\/\">Home Quality Mark<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.breeam.com\/communities\">BREEAM Communities<\/a> (master planning scheme),\u00a0both encourage sustainable transport options in new housing developments. This includes better provisions for walking, cycling and public transport as well as the installation of electric vehicle charging facilities. In Home Quality Mark this makes up part of the indicator scoring, assessing impacts on costs, health and wellbeing and environmental footprints.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gwyn Roberts<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>New Homes and Communities Team Lead<\/p>\n<p>BRE<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.homequalitymark.com\">www.homequalitymark.com<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"mk-custom-module-container\">\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following air quality warnings in London, BRE New Homes and Communities Team Lead Gwyn Roberts explains how housebuilders can help tackle air pollution<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[304],"tags":[279,572],"stakeholder_rel_tag":[],"contributor_rel_tag":[172184],"class_list":{"0":"post-29108","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-planning-construction-news","7":"tag-environment","8":"tag-housebuilding"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.9 (Yoast SEO v26.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Housebuilders can help with air pollution, says BRE New Homes lead<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Following air quality warnings in London, BRE New Homes and Communities Team Lead Gwyn Roberts explains how housebuilders can help tackle air pollution\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/housebuilders-can-help-air-pollution-bre\/29108\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Housebuilders can help with air pollution, says BRE New Homes lead\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Following air quality warnings in London, BRE New Homes and Communities Team Lead Gwyn Roberts explains how housebuilders can help tackle air pollution\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/housebuilders-can-help-air-pollution-bre\/29108\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Planning, Building &amp; 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