Plant a Hedge in Front of your House to Combat Air Pollution

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Permalink Reply by Alan Stanton on November 3, 2017 at 8:52

Thanks, Hugh,

I'm glad to see this topic discussed. But it would be more useful to have a link to the Imperial College study and read it myself.

Anyone else searching and found a direct link yet?

Or perhaps someone on HoL knows about other published sources (with links) which discuss the whole issue. Right now the lungs of small children especially - and everyone else - are being damaged by failure to take urgent actions. But of course the damage doesn't affect all locations equally.

I often think that in a few years time people will look back and make the same comments and ask the same series of questions as with many other current public issues

1. How come nobody knew?
2. Hmm. Right. They did know. Why didn't anyone say?
3. Oh. Right. Some people did say. Then why-oh-why didn't people with power listen ?
4. <sigh> So they listened and published and talked and came up with a long term plan and a set of sticking plaster actions. And meanwhile ...

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Permalink Reply by Hugh on November 3, 2017 at 21:15

According to the journalist, the study is The role of shrubs and perennials in the capture and mitigation of particulate air pollution in London by Kyle Shackleton, Nigel Bell, Hannah Smith, Linda Davies of the Centre for Environmental Policy, Imperial College London.

A copy is attached which has one of the authors' email addresses on it, should you want to follow up.

Attachments:

• Green Infrastructure Research Report (PDF 1.68MB) - Transport for ....pdf, 1.7 MB

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Permalink Reply by JJ B on November 3, 2017 at 10:01

It doesn't have to be a whole hedge, a few shrubs or a small tree will do.

And remember, if you do pave over the front garden, use a permeable system so that the run off water goes down into the soil and doesn't run off into the street sytem and contribute to flooding. So many people are paving over their fronts!!!!

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