Mayor's Air Quality Fund

Round 4 Projects

The latest round of successful projects was announced by the Mayor on 9 March 2024.

This fourth round of funding supported seventeen projects to reduce particulate matter (PM_2.5) emissions, run more sustainable events, improve indoor air quality, and protect the most vulnerable Londoners from pollution in locations such as schools and hospitals.

The projects include: 

• Healthy Waterways: A collaboration between 14 boroughs to deliver a strategy and toolkit for local authorities to tackle emissions from boats on canals and rivers.
• Idling Action Project: A collaboration between 20 boroughs to reduce commercial sector vehicle engine idling by engaging with fleet operators, driving instructors, and policymakers.
• Zero Emission Network: A collaboration between Hackney, Tower Hamlets, Newham, and Westminster to support businesses and residents to adopt cargo bikes and e-bikes for deliveries and work travel.
• Non-Road Mobile Machinery (NRMM) Beyond Construction: A pilot scheme to research the impact of NRMM used on roadworks, licensed events, and waste sites to inform London boroughs’ efforts to reduce associated emissions.
• Healthy Streets Everyday Phase II: A collaboration between six boroughs, business improvement districts, and strategic partners to increase active travel, walking routes, school streets, low emission transport infrastructure, and green space improvements.
• London Woodburning Project: A project to create a pan-London training scheme to enforce smoke control areas for borough officers, building on the success of previous work to reduce emissions from wood burning.

• Kilburn High Road Improvement Scheme: A Brent project to improve the urban realm along Kilburn High Road, introducing 20mph speed limits, better pedestrian access, improved street lighting, new street furniture, and new cycle parking.
• Clean Air for Camden: A Camden community engagement project to spread awareness of air quality and encourage residents to take steps to reduce their exposure to indoor and outdoor pollution.
• Cleaner Filming for Camden: A Camden project to research and quantify the impact of emissions from NRMM on film sets on air quality and to encourage cleaner film productions.
• Tackling Dirty Air at Primary Schools: A Hammersmith and Fulham project to introduce timed pedestrian and cycle zones, indoor air quality filters, and green screens at four schools to reduce students’ exposure to poor air quality.
• Road Vents: A Lewisham project to trial and assess innovative new road vent technology outside schools to reduce students’ exposure to road traffic emissions.
• Schools and Asthma: A Southwark project to raise awareness and drive behaviour change across 25 schools to mitigate the impacts of pollution on students with asthma.
• School Super Zones Consolidation: A Tower Hamlets project to expand School Super Zones to engage children in the planning and delivery of interventions to improve air quality around their schools, including air quality monitors and filters.
• Inequalities of Indoor Air Quality in Westminster Homes: A Westminster project to use cutting-edge indoor air quality monitors to study the links between indoor air quality, health, and socio-economic inequalities.
• Trafalgar Square Power Upgrade: A project to increase the electrical supply at Trafalgar Square to reduce the use of generators during public events.