SITE RESEARCH

The map seen is an overall view of the surrounding area of the Cally, including Granary square, St.Pancras startion Kings cross station, Caledonian Road and Barnsbury Station as well as a stretch of the Canal and the Cally itslef. As seen in the map, there are not many green spaces of substantial size in the area. The most substantial green area is the Barnsbury Nature reserve that is home to many speices of trees and plants and hence inhabit many animals and insects.

The Cally is heavily polluted, manly due to the business of the Road as well as other transportation possibilities such as the Overground and the Underground, furthermore, there is an industrial zone directly off the Cally that produces a lot of pollution and results in a lot of lorries using the road. The foucs of my site research is the air quality around the Cally, as well as the green spaces and how the green spaces can best be utilized to help combat the problem of air pollution the Cally faces.

This section cuts through the Cally at the point where it intersects with the Overground. The decision to focus on this area is due to the increased levels of air pollution at this specific point due to both the road and the overground producing air pollution. The section also shows the average pollution level that exists along the Cally in a 24 hour period, showing the large decrease in quality during rush hour.

This drawing illustrates the sources of pollution along the Cally, highlighting the fact that road transportation is the biggest issue with it producing 68% of the air pollution along the Cally. The drawing looks into the type of pollutants that get produced along the Cally and the effects that they have on humans if exposed over long periods of time in bad conditions such as the Cally.

This drawing is an outline of Islington Council and the Cally. It highlights the green spaces that can be found within the council as a whole and the lack of them, Islington council only has what accounts to 13% green spaces, this is the second lowest proportion of land to green spaces ration within the country, showing a huge need for more green spaces, not only for air quality purification measures, but also for attracting biodiversity into the area as well as the wellbeing of the general population. Islington is the most densely populated coucil within England and Wales, so this poses the question of how it will be possible to produce more green spaces when there is no space to produce them?