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Vital Signs - Environment
Emissions
There is a strong relationship between the
health of the environment and the health
of residents.
Measures that reduce
greenhouse gas emissions
also help improve public
health, such as active
travel, improving
availability of
sustainably produced
food and improving
air quality.
However, making many
of these changes requires
residents to make some changes
to their habits and lifestyles.
A comprehensive Electric Vehicle (EV)
charging point structure is essential to
facilitate the uptake in electric vehicles.
Milton Keynes City Council has been
allocated £1.6m by the government
to expand charging points.
Air pollution is the largest
environmental risk to public
health in the UK. A measure
of the impact of air pollution
on public health is the
percentage of adult deaths
attributable to particulate
air pollution.
In Milton Keynes this was 5.7%, which
is slightly above the average for all English
Unitary Authorities of 5.3%.
The challenge for Milton Keynes continues
to be reducing the high levels of emissions
from fossil fuels used in transport, which
are contributing to air pollution and climate
change. Uptake of electric and hybrid
vehicles is strong in Milton Keynes compared
with the country as a whole.
The number of private plug-in vehicles
per 100,000 population in Milton Keynes
is 1073 compared with of 778 for the UK.
Milton Keynes City Council
has been allocated £1.6m
by the government to
expand charging points.
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