London’s worst performing boroughs for air pollution revealed

Three quarters of main roads in London have illegal levels of air pollution.

The figures have been released by London Assembly Green Party Member Jenny Jones and show all of Camden’s main roads break the European legal limits for nitrogen dioxide, along with the City of London and Kensington and Chelsea.

Bromley was the only borough with fewer than half of its main roads below the legal limit for air pollution.

Here is the list in full:

City of London – 100% over European legal limit

Westminster – 100% over European legal limit

Kensington and Chelsea – 100% over European legal limit

Camden – 100% over European legal limit

Tower Hamlets – 97% over European legal limit

Hammersmith and Fulham – 100% over European legal limit

Islington – 99% over European legal limit

Southwark – 95% over European legal limit

Lambeth – 96% over European legal limit

Hackney – 98% over European legal limit

Wandsworth – 95% over European legal limit

Newham – 87% over European legal limit

Lewisham – 88% over European legal limit

Ealing – 88% over European legal limit

Brent – 82% over European legal limit

Hounslow – 84% over European legal limit

Greenwich – 79% over European legal limit

Waltham Forest – 75% over European legal limit

Barnet – 78% over European legal limit

Haringey – 88% over European legal limit

Enfield – 77% over European legal limit

Kingston-upon-Thames – 76% over European legal limit

Redbridge – 81% over European legal limit

Barking and Dagenham – 76% over European legal limit

Hillingdon – 66% over European legal limit

Merton – 74% over European legal limit

Richmond-upon-Thames – 66% over European legal limit

Croydon – 62% over European legal limit

Bexley – 56% over European legal limit

Sutton – 51% over European legal limit

Havering – 57% over European legal limit

Harrow – 56% over European legal limit

Bromley – 45% over European legal limit

via London’s worst performing boroughs for air pollution revealed | London – ITV News.

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