The following Notices of Motion have been received:-
(i) Vehicle Charging
Air Pollution is a serious consequence of our ever-busier road network, causing well-documented short and long term health effects on both children and adults alike. There are a number of roads in the borough affected by traffic congestion including the A58 and A56. In 2017, DEFRA specifically named the A56 to be suffering from high levels of air pollution and one of the worst polluted roads in Greater Manchester.
A key route to tackling air pollution is by encouraging the use of low emission vehicles. These include modern petrol and diesel vehicles, hybrid vehicles, and electric vehicles.
To facilitate increased use of electric vehicles in our borough, there must be ample provision from the Council of electric charging points.
This Council notes:
· The good work done in 2013 by TfGM to establish Greater Manchester’s first charging points under the Greater Manchester Electric Vehicle (GMEV) scheme.
· The Greater Manchester Climate Change and Low Emissions Implementation Plan 2016-2020 to cut carbon emissions by 48% between 1990 and 2020
· The serious health effects of air pollution to Bury’s residents.
· The need to tackle air pollution in Bury and transition to a low carbon economy
· The Council’s desire to see increased usage of low emission vehicles.
· The 7 charging points located in the Borough do not match this Council’s ambition to see increased uptake of electric vehicles.
This Council resolves to:
· Establish an initiative to identify suitable locations for additional charging points within the borough.
· Write to GM Mayor Andy Burnham to seek subsidisation for the new Bury initiative under TfGM’s GMEV scheme.
· Have 20 electric vehicle charging points across the borough, with a minimum of 1 per ward, by the end of calendar year 2018.
· Reconvene in January 2019 to set new installation targets for the calendar year 2019.
In the names of Councillors R Caserta, P Cropper, J Daly, I Gartside, D Gunther, M Hankey, J Harris, R Hodkinson, K Hussain, N Jones, G Keeley, O Kersh, S Nuttall, I Schofield, D Silbiger, R Walker, and Y Wright
(ii) Clean Air Zones
This Council Notes that:
1. Bury, like many authorities, has area of really poor air quality and that pollutants in the air can exceed safe limit set by both the European Union and World Health Organisation.
2. Air pollution in Bury has a massive impact on the health of our citizens. The young and most vulnerable it can cause permanent lung damage to babies and young children and in older people exacerbates lung and heart diseases. In Bury this equates to approximately 950 years of life lost per annum.
3. That a number of welcome steps and initiatives have already been implemented to improve air quality by the Council and at a Greater Manchester level.
This Council believes that:
1. Everyone in our Borough should be able to breathe clean, unpolluted air.
2. That we should take extra step to protect the health of all residents
This Council therefore Resolves to:
1. Introduce, over the next two years an enforceable ‘no-idling’ zone outside every school in the Borough, with at least four pilot zones in the next year.
2. Where practical, to extend the number of ‘no-idling’ zones to cover areas outside children’s play areas where parked traffic is an issue.
3. To work with our NHS partners, to look at extending ‘no-idling’ zones outside Medical Centres, and in hospital ‘pick up’ areas.
In the names of Councillors M D’Albert; T Pickstone and S Wright
(iii) Tyred Campaign
On Monday 10 September 2012 a coach bound for
Liverpool carrying 53 people from the Bestival music festival on the Isle of Wight, left
the road and crashed into a tree instantly killing Michael Molloy
(18), Kerry Ogden (23) and the coach driver, Colin Daulby (63), and left others with life-changing
injuries. The inquest into the crash found that the front nearside
tyre which was actually older than the coach itself, at 19 years,
was responsible for the crash. In 2014, Liverpool City Council
unanimously agreed on a motion in support of Michael’s mother
Frances calling for a change in the law requiring a ban on tyres
older than six years on commercial vehicles. Despite the widespread
public and political support for this campaign, no change in the
law has been made, shamefully leaving others at risk from faulty
and dangerous tyres.
Council notes that Frances Molloy has launched “Tyred” – the official campaign to
pressure Government – to change the law to ban the use of
tyres older than ten years on commercial vehicles.
Council wholeheartedly supports “Tyred” and instructs the Leader of the
Council to write to the Prime Minister and Leader of the Opposition
to call together cross-party support for a change in the law.
Council further resolves to support the “Tyred” campaign until such a change in the
law is achieved and to draw the attention of the Local Government
Association, especially its Environment and Transport Board, to
this Council’s view that the concerns should be fully
addressed.
Finally, Council asks the Chief Executive to write to all schools
in the Borough asking them to require coach and bus operators they
use for school trips etc to adhere to
the provisions set out in the Tyred
campaign. Council should also ask officers to look at our own
procurement procedures with a view to inserting an appropriate
clause in any contracts with commercial operators and to also
ensure that this standard applies to our own vehicle
fleet.
In the names of Councillors N Bayley, J Black, S Briggs, R Cathcart, A Cummings, J Grimshaw, M Hayes, S Haroon, T Holt, M James, D Jones, J Kelly, K Leach, A Mckay, E O’Brien, C Preston, A Quinn, T Rafiq, R Shori, A Simpson, R Skillen, S Smith, Sarah Southworth, Susan Southworth, T Tariq, K Thomas, J Walker, S Walmsley and M Whitby.