Environment news

City of Nature Plan must be accepted by Cabinet to meet Birmingham's net-zero carbon target

Birmingham City Council will be recommending, on 8 February, that its Cabinet approves a 25-year City of Nature Plan to change the way it manages its parks, for environmental health recovery.

Published 31st January 2022.

• Hydrogen buses coming to Birmingham next Spring

  Birmingham City Council has purchased 20 new hydrogen double decker buses as part of their Clean Air Hydrogen Bus Pilot.

  

  Published 5th October 2020.

• Statement regarding Car Free Day

  Below is a statement from the council regarding the Birmingham Car Free Day event due to take place on 22 September:

  Published 9th September 2019.

• Birmingham climate taskforce announced

  A taskforce is being set up to draw up an action plan setting out how Birmingham will tackle climate change and become carbon neutral by 2030.

  Published 6th September 2019.

• Car Free School Streets are coming to Birmingham

  A pioneering scheme that closes roads around schools to motorised traffic for up to an hour at the start and end of the school day is being piloted in Birmingham from this September.

  Published 9th July 2019.

• Joint statement from Birmingham City Council and Leeds City Council regarding Clean Air Zone delays

  The introduction of the UK’s first Clean Air Zones is to be significantly postponed due to a Government delay in delivering digital systems required to make the zones operational and enforceable.

  Published 18th June 2019.

• Mother and son sentenced for animal cruelty

  A Birmingham mother and son have been sentenced after causing unnecessary suffering to an English bull mastiff which was found in a condition described by magistrates as ‘horrific’.

  

  Published 29th April 2019.

• Government approval for Birmingham Clean Air Zone plans

  Birmingham City Council’s plan for a Clean Air Zone to help tackle the problem of air pollution in the city has received Government approval.

  Published 13th March 2019.

• Council to consult on Clean Air Strategy for Birmingham

  Cabinet is set to agree the launch of a consultation seeking the city’s input into a wide-ranging strategy to help deliver cleaner air across the whole of Birmingham.

  Published 11th January 2019.

• Council publishes Full Business Case for Birmingham Clean Air Zone

  Birmingham City Council has published its final proposals for a Clean Air Zone to help tackle the problem of air pollution in the city.

  Published 7th December 2018.

• Hall Green fly-tipping incident costs man his van

  A Tipton man who was linked to a fly-tipping case in Hall Green earlier this year has been ordered to pay £3,620 and to forfeit his van by Birmingham Magistrates’ Court.

  Published 22nd October 2018.

• Clean Air Zone consultation plans to go before Cabinet

  Cabinet is being asked to give the go-ahead for the council to consult on plans to reduce air pollution in Birmingham and protect the health of those who live and work in the city.

  Published 19th June 2018.

• Cleaner cabs project scoops National Air Quality Award

  A pioneering project to retrofit Hackney carriages in Birmingham with cleaner, greener LPG (liquefied petroleum gas) engines has won a national award.

  Published 24th November 2017.