Carolyn Barber of Portsmouth’s Good Mental Health Cooperative, and local researcher and social entrepreneur, shares advice and resources on how to manage your mental health in lockdown. The Coop is running a mental wealth programme [… read more ]
S&C contributor and Pompey Politics Podcast host Ian Morris shares his experience of self-isolation as someone with diabetes. It’s Day 10 and oh, so quiet… Wednesday 25th March, Day 10 of 89 Double digit day! In cricketing terms – [… read more ]
Portsmouth City Council (PCC) will decide today whether to introduce a new air pollution monitoring station ahead of the possible implementation of a Clean Air Zone (CAZ) in 2021, but a local campaigner is concerned [… read more ]
Portsmouth City Council recently proposed a reduced Clean Air Zone to improve air quality in the city. Local air quality campaigner for Let Pompey Breathe, Tim Sheerman-Chase, explores the proposal and questions whether the plan [… read more ]
At Pens of the Earth’s launch night Helen Salsbury talked about rethinking the way our streets are used, and not just assuming they should exist for motorised traffic. Reclaiming streets for people can have an [… read more ]
Ahead of Clean Air Day 2019 on Thursday 20th June, Tim Sheerman-Chase from the Let Pompey Breathe Campaign looks at the benefits of traffic removal in reducing air pollution in Portsmouth. Portsmouth is a congested [… read more ]
Tim Sheerman-Chase, the Green Party candidate for Fratton ward, local air quality campaigner and author of the #LetPompeyBreathe blog, argues for the introduction of Clean Air Zones in Portsmouth. Clean air campaigners in Portsmouth welcome [… read more ]
Community Reporter Helen Salsbury reports on ‘Streets for People’, a public meeting in October 2018 that explored ways of making Portsmouth’s streets vibrant, safe, and healthy places for local communities, businesses, residents and visitors to [… read more ]
In today’s article ‘Portsmouth After Brexit: What Do We Know?’, S&C Community Reporter Rosy Bremer looks at work undertaken to prepare the city for Brexit by the last and current council adminstrations. In this companion [… read more ]
Thursday 21st June 2018 was Clean Air Day and local activists for the #LetPompeyBreathe campaign handed in a petition calling on Portsmouth City Council to undertake a debate on air quality, and deliver the Air [… read more ]
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