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Who we are
The East End
Quality of Life Initiative (EEQOL) is an innovative, community
led project with a track record of delivering social, economic
and environmental change within Sheffield, across South
Yorkshire and with influence nationally. The project is funded
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What we
do
EEQOL works through a community
advocacy and research
role to give practical support to community forums in Tinsley,
Darnall, and Handsworth. The project co-ordinates a city-wide
community network monitoring air quality, using diffusion tubes
to monitor levels of nitrogen dioxide.
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Past Achievements
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Worked with Sheffield City Council, Tinsley
Parents and Childrens Consortium, and Tinsley Sure Start to
ensure the new
Tinsley Green Centre is an outstanding
example of environmental good practice for Sheffield.
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Helped set up the participation of local
communities to influence decision making in regeneration
areas funded by Objective 1 in South Yorkshire
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Undertook
a participatory Health Impact Assessment of the Rotherham
Sheffield Motorway Corridor Planning Study.
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Fumes: Traffic
emissions on Abbeydale Road already breach national
pollution guidelines, a key reason for the planning decision
Published
Date:
03 August 2010 By Ben Spencer The Star
News Reporter
A LONG-running campaign to halt plans to expand a superstore
in the south of Sheffield has succeeded, after councillors
rejected an application for planning permission.
Supermarket
giant Sainsburys wanted to build a two-storey extension at
their Archer Road site in Millhouses, increasing floorspace
by 40 per cent.
Company bosses were encouraged when council officers backed
their plans, but members of a city planning board threw out
the plans on grounds of increased traffic and air pollution.
During a heated town hall meeting residents made impassioned
arguments for both sides.
Patricia Kirk and Marian Price said they had been shopping
at the store for many years and welcomed the 80 new jobs the
company said the extension would provide.
But Kate Stone, governor of Holt House Infant School, said
she was "extremely concerned" about the impact on road
safety and pollution. Amanda Hunn, of nearby Hastings Road,
said small businesses in district shopping centres were
worried about the effect on trade.
Ogo Osammor, Sheffield Council's air quality expert, said
the extension would increase traffic from the site by five
per cent and the impact on air quality would be "minimal".
But councillors were concerned when he said some parts of
Abbeydale Road were already "at or above" the national
guidelines for nitrogen dioxide emissions. Voting against
the plans Coun Mazher Iqbal said: "It is important that we
improve quality of life across the city."
But board chairman Coun John Hesketh said: "I'm certain
Sainsburys will appeal. That appeal will focus on the fact
that this board decided to ignore the advice of our own
officers."
Ted Gunby, chair of the Carterknowle and Millhouses
Community Group, later said the board had made "a courageous
decision".
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Concerns over air pollution in Tinsley
featured on BBC's Look North on Monday 2 Nov 2009
Follow this
link to
watch the programme (feature starts approx 50 seconds into
programme).
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Residents protest over traffic
pollution
Concerned
residents confronted motorists making their morning commute into
Sheffield to urge them to cut their car use -
read the full article in the Star, 17 September 2009, and
see
more photos from Tinsley and Darnall. |
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Outstanding Contribution to
Improving Air Quality
Neil Parry, Project
Co-ordinator for East End Quality of Life Initiative, recently
received
Care4Air's most prestigious award for his outstanding
contribution to improving air quality in South Yorkshire.

Click
here for
more information and to view Care4Air's video.
Click
here to read David Bocking's
article in the Sheffield Telegraph, 18 June 2008.
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Air Quality and
Health Trends in the Community Assembly East
area
Download a booklet with
useful information on air quality, health and neighbourhoods for
the Arbourthorne, Darnall, Manor Castle and Richmond Wards.
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Air Quality and
Health Trends
East End Quality of Life Initiative has
produced some booklets for the Community Air Quality Monitoring
groups, bringing together air quality and health trends with a
summary of the health effects of air pollution which can be found on the Reports page.
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| Air Quality in Sheffield
Download the latest air quality
graphs for your local community.
Find out more about air quality
in Sheffield.
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| Browse our Photo Gallery
Tinsley Health Week 2009
Installing underfloor insulation in the cellar of a terraced
house in Tinsley
Tinsley in the snow, February 2009
Tinsley insulation advice, February 2009
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April 2008 Tinsley Forum visit to Crosby Beach and Liverpool
See some
of the events and projects in Darnall and Tinsley that East End
Quality of Life Initiative has been involved in over the years. |
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