A green screen was installed on the boundary wall along the Warwick Road at St Cuthbert with St Matthias Primary School in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. This is one of the busiest and most congested roads in the Borough and has been identified as an area that has high background levels of NO2 and PM10 pollution.

A temporary air quality monitoring station was also installed into the school comprising two NO2 analysers and two PM analysers. The analysers have provided concentration data for NO2 and PM on the road side of the green screen and the playground side of the green screen installation. This has allowed for a comparative study to be undertaken to assess how effective the green screen has been in reducing the concentration of NO2 and PM in the school playground environment.

An air quality education programme was also designed and delivered to year 5 and 6 pupils within the school in conjunction with the installation of the green infrastructure and air quality monitoring station.

To find out more on this project and see the film/animation please visit the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea Air quality projects page: click here

The project was funded by the GLA receiving funding through INTERREG IVB, the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea Council and Defra and was run in collaboration with King’s College London and the Transport Research Laboratory.

Item date 03/11/2014