Improving the living environment

The limited resources available for the NRP reduced the potential for impacts on the local environment. Nevertheless there were notable achievements, and, as can be seen from the examples below, the activities involved would have had impacts in other domains as well as environmental.

Collaborative action on the environment included:

• New partnerships on air quality improvements with local government public health and environmental health staff, a national charity and a regional air quality task group, contribution to a regional air quality study and awareness raising activities in schools (Case Study – Old Swan, Liverpool, Merseyside)
• The production of a map of local road safety hot-spots by residents and local organisations; the sharing of road safety initiatives developed by the local authority with a local school (Case Study – Ellesmere Port, Cheshire); and taking action on speeding and pedestrian safety (Case Study – St. George’s, Preston, Lancashire)
• Renovating a neglected alleyway to shared use improving the quality of the physical environment and supporting greater conviviality (Case Study – St. George’s, Preston, Lancashire)

• Restoring local green spaces and reinvigorating small sites (e.g. introducing planters with flowers and garden furniture; painting a mural) (Case study – NFL Mill Hill & Wensley Fold)
• organising community clean-ups and helping residents dispose of unwanted household items (Case study – NFL Mill Hill & Wensley Fold)