Portsmouth rules out omitting IoW ferry terminal from CAZ

Air Quality

19 October 2020

Portsmouth’s CAZ: blue dotted lines are boundary changes approved this month, the red dotted line is the change that was rejected. It would have taken the Isle of Wight ferry port out of the CAZ. The two red dots are the NO2 exceedance sites

Portsmouth City Council has ruled out omitting the Isle of Wight ferry terminal from the city’s proposed charging clean air zone (CAZ), even though a route to the terminal avoiding the CAZ would be practical.

Portsmouth is under a Government direction to introduce a Class B CAZ to bring nitrogen dioxide concentrations down to within legal limit values by 2022. Monitoring has identified two locations of exceedance: the A3 Alfred Road and the A3 Commercial Road. Implementation...