Councillors on B&NES Council are set to meet at a specially-convened Cabinet to consider proposals for a Clean Air Zone in Bath.

A report into the future of a proposed clean air zone is currently being prepared ahead of the cabinet meeting at the Guildhall in Bath on Tuesday, 5th March.

Last December, the cabinet received a report updating on a consultation which more than 8,400 people took part in – a record number, with almost twenty per cent arriving in the last few days of the consultation.

The Council decided that as a result, it would need additional time to analyse the responses and the technical modelling in order to prepare a report for the meeting in March.

A report before Cabinet in December identified a number of themes emerging from the consultation, including the boundary of the zone, impacts on specific groups of people and potential mitigations. It recommended a further report, with fully costed and modelled options, including mitigations, be reported back to the cabinet as soon as reasonably possible, and Cabinet agreed to delay the decision until March.

Commercial vehicle operators are also being invited to a free half-day roadshow to find out more about how the Clean Air Zone could affect them. The event, at Bath Racecourse on Wednesday, 6th March is being organised by Motor Transport Magazine in conjunction with B&NES Council.

Topics will include: Rental, leasing and maintenance options for alternative fuel commercial vehicles, Clean Vehicle Retrofit Accreditation Scheme, and case studies from HGV and van operators on the practicalities of implementing alternative fuel fleet vehicles.