Check air pollution levels where you live in Manchester – ManchesterWorld
The organisation behind the research says the Government is “dragging its heels” on dealing with air pollution – with several Greater Manchester featuring in its list of towns and cities with major issues.
The scale of air pollution problems facing Greater Manchester have been laid bare by new data and research.
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A number of Greater Manchester boroughs feature in its list of the 26 towns and citie…….
The organisation behind the research says the Government is “dragging its heels” on dealing with air pollution – with several Greater Manchester featuring in its list of towns and cities with major issues.
The scale of air pollution problems facing Greater Manchester have been laid bare by new data and research.
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A number of Greater Manchester boroughs feature in its list of the 26 towns and cities in the country with the biggest issues when it comes to three of the most common harmful substances in the air.
Campaigners say the Government is “dragging its heels” while pointing the figure at local politicians and authorities when it should be leading the way on changing the national infrastructure to make it cleaner and greener.
The Government has responded by saying air pollution has decreased in recent years but it is committed to doing more.
What does the data show for Greater Manchester?
The data COPI has released using sophisticated computer modelling done by experts at Imperial College London to predict pollution concentrations near to roads.
This was then checked for accuracy by comparing it to the readings from around 20,000 council-run monitoring sites across the country.
It has then produced an aggregated level of pollution for three substances – nitrogen dioxide (NO2) and two types of particulate matter (PM2.5 and PM10).
This allows a ranking to be drawn up of how polluted the air is in postcodes around the UK.
Salford and Manchester both featured prominently in the COPI’s list of the 26 most polluted towns and cities, with more than one in four properties (27.15% to be exact) in or above the 90th percentile of polluted addresses.
An air pollution heatmap of the UK produced by the COPI
This means that just over a quarter of Manchester properties are among the 10% of addresses with the highest pollution levels in the UK.
In addition almost every property in Manchester (99.32%) is on or above the 80th percentile.
In Salford just over 30% of properties are in the 90th percentile, and 99.42% are among the most polluted 20% of addresses.
Salford has the fourth-highest rate of properties in the 90th percentile for air pollution, while Manchester is sixth.
And only Slough has a higher percentage of properties in the 80th percentile than Salford and Manchester, which are second and third.
There are pollution issues across the whole of Greater Manchester, with Stockport, Oldham, Bolton, Rochdale and Bury all making the list of 26 most polluted places as well.
In Stockport just over one in five properties (20.51%) are in …….
