Legislation and Consultations

Mums for Lungs believes that government and local authorities are not doing enough to address the public health crisis of air pollution. A pillar of our campaigning has always been to write letters to MPs, ministers and local councils, and to respond to consultations on public policy proposals.

Local government

Local consultations we have responded to include the Lambeth, Southwark and Richmond transport strategies, Lambeth’s Rosendale Healthy Route, Southwark’s Our Healthy Streets, proposals to build a third runway at Heathrow airport, Lambeth, Southwark, Bromley and Ealing’s air quality action plan consultations and those for London’s Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ). We have been given our views to the London Assembly Committee on subjects such as the ULEZ, the Mayor’s Transport Strategy and wood burning.

National government

We have written to the Chancellor ahead of the budget, to the Transport Secretary to push for faster legislative change to enable more School Streets outside London and to the Health and Environment ministers to ask for more action on wood burning. We have responded to the Clean Air Strategy consultation, the Environment Act target-setting consultation, given evidence to the DEFRA committee for the Environment Bill, and written open letters on subjects such as the Silvertown Tunnel, idling and School Streets.

Enabling others to have their say

We continue to push the Government for the change we need, as part of this we regularly organise Twitter storms and click-to-email campaigns to easily enable people to register their concerns about air pollution to our policymakers.