Environment

Environmental issues are not just about green house gasses and the Kyoto agreement. The aim here is to improve air quality and gradually bring about an improvement in the quality of life for Londoners; this includes strategies for air quality, waste management and encouraging energy efficiency. Continuing to reduce vehicle emissions is vital, and encouraging commercial vehicles to look at new electric delivery vans – these would turn London into a quieter city overnight. Some Councils have a policy of positive discrimination towards low pollution vehicles and I favour this approach over more taxation.

This is also about sensible planning policies - building for local communities, so that people have access to local shops, local schools and local employment, to reduce the need for travel.

Encouraging traffic to keep moving, so that you reduce the emissions from stationery traffic is important, so I would not keep increasing the size of roundabouts and other obstructions which delay traffic.