Have Your Say webpage<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\nCouncillor Minesh Parekh (Crookes and Crosspool) has now said: \u201cWe know that there is high demand for this\u2014on the Council\u2019s \u201cpublic charger demand tracker\u201d, Crookes currently has the highest number of requests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cFor areas like Crookes, with lots of terrace housing and lack of off-street parking, traditional EV charging infrastructure (facilitated through a garage or drive) won\u2019t work.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Councillor Ben Miskell, Chair of the Transport, Regeneration and Climate Committee, said: \u201cIt\u2019s been a year since the Clean Air Zone was first introduced and I want to thank the people of Sheffield and businesses in the area for their response. The data is showing that people are making the switch to cleaner vehicles.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Greg Fell, Director of Public Health said: \u201cAir pollution contributes to one in 20 deaths in Sheffield, so we\u2019ve got to reduce emissions to protect our health and to protect the environment around us.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Councillor Parekh said that if this transition to electric vehicles reduces air pollution to non-harmful levels, \u2018then the need for the CAZ is removed and it would no longer run\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He said: \u201cIf this can be scaled then there will be wide benefits such as cleaner air, less noise pollution from traffic, and greater likelihood of a liveable post-carbon society.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Crookes residents are the most eager to transition to electric cars according to a Sheffield Councillor, aligning with the city\u2019s ambitions to be \u2018zero carbon\u2019 by 2030. Crookes has the highest request rate for the EV charging points which will be installed as part of a city-wide \u00a3318k pilot to help residents transition to less […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49207,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[152,5],"tags":[189,190,55],"class_list":["post-49195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-council-2","category-news","tag-clean-air-zone","tag-electric-vehicles","tag-sheffield-city-council"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49195\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}