Manifesto 2019 FINAL

Southampton’s Green City Charter
Southampton Labour has adopted the most ambitious environmental
measures ever agreed voluntarily by a Council in the UK.
Over the last three years your Labour Council has worked with the Port,
the taxi trade, the bus companies and road hauliers and residents to
reduce pollution that you breathe in by 24%.
Southampton Labour will deliver the Green City Charter
that works with partners to:
• Pursue ambitious targets for the reduction in nitrogen dioxide
pollution and achieve carbon neutrality by 2030.
• Work with the Port Operators to introduce shore-side power for
cruise ships – getting electricity from the grid, not by running
their engines.
• A HGV Environmental levy that would charge the most polluting
HGVs accessing the Port.
• Offer taxi operators a ‘try before you buy’ scheme so that
more taxis adopt electric vehicles and expand the existing low
emissions taxi scrappage scheme.
• Set tough new standards for the Bus companies so that all buses
are the cleanest they can be.
• Introduce more green areas in suburbs – roundabouts and tree
planting.
• Build green walls around schools and play areas in the most
polluted locations.
• Enhance bio-diversity across the city by investing in our green
spaces and encouraging urban wildlife.
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