Part of 1. 1. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Environment and Rural Affairs – in the Senedd at 2:12 pm on 28 June 2017.
Sadly, I’m afraid that Cardiff is not compliant with air quality legislation, and the spotlight was on Cardiff in a television programme yesterday about the amount of housing that’s being developed around Cardiff without the transport links to go with it. Is it your view that local authorities, in carrying out their planning duties, need to bear in mind the need for connectivity when they’re developing new communities, so that they’re not actually massively increasing their pollution problem? And, obviously, the metro plays a huge part in ensuring that we aren’t all drowning in poisonous air.