| AdminHistory | Sheffield City Council Planning Department's 1999 planning study of the M1 corridor areas of Rotherham and Sheffield inclued a Health Impact Assessment undertaken by the East End Quality of Life Initiative (EEQOL), a Health Action Zone project developed within the East End Strategy Group which aimed to increase the participation of the communities of Darnall, Tinsley and Handsworth in strategic development decisions for the area.
The EEQOL was a community led project delivering social, economic and environmental change within Sheffield and South Yorkshire. The project was funded by Sheffield Public Health. EEQOL worked through a community advocacy and research role to give practical support to community forums in Tinsley, Darnall, and Handsworth. The project co-ordinated a city-wide community network monitoring air quality, and used diffusion tubes to monitor levels of nitrogen dioxide.
Later data was also collected for other suburbs of Sheffield, including Carterknowle, Chesterfield Road, Sheffield City Centre, Foxhill, Hallam University, Hunters Bar, the Bus Interchange, King Ecgbert, Penistone Road, Sheffield Train Station, Sheffield University, St Mary's, Weston Park and Woodseats.
The aims of the Initiative were to develop an integrated policy framework for sustainable regeneration in Sheffield's East End; facilitate active community participation in development, monitoring, evaluation and review of regeneration policy in the area; develop a Health Impact Assessment as a vehicle for policy development, organisational change and community development; and establish enduring participatory decision-making structures. Much of EEQOL's work was involved in co-ordinating teams of community volunteers to record air quality data, in co-operation with Sheffield City Council
The Initiative ceased at the end of March 2018 following the withdrawal of funding. At this time community air quality monitoring was continued by Sheffield City Council's Air Quality team. |
| CustodialHistory | The data was created by the East End Quality of Life Initiative, 1998 - 2018. When the East End Quality of Life Initiative ceased at the end of March 2018 following the withdrawal of funding, one of their Researcher’s deposited a memory stick with their data of too Sheffield City Archives in June 2018. Sheffield City Archives copied this data from the memory stick to G:\DEL\Libraries\Leisure and Culture\Archives & Local Studies\Archive accessions\Digital uncatalogued items\2018-31 in June 2018. |