7 Sep, 2025 @ 13:15
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Marbella goes green: Four new air monitors set up in Low Emission Zone

MARBELLA is taking a big step towards cleaner air.

The town hall has installed four state-of-the-art environmental monitors in the historic Old Town to track pollution levels as part of its Low Emission Zone (LEZ) project. The move comes ahead of a full rollout, which will eventually regulate traffic to create a less polluted, more breathable city centre.

Currently, the LEZ is informational only, meaning no drivers are being hit with fines – it’s all about gathering data. Once the sensors are up and running, officials will have real-time readings on pollutants like particulate matter, carbon monoxide, ozone, nitrogen dioxide, and sulphur dioxide.

Councillor Felix Romero said the monitors are ‘not just a technical step, but a gesture of commitment to citizens, who will benefit from a cleaner and more liveable urban environment’.

The monitors have been installed at key intersections, including Salvador Rueda with Avenida del Mercado, Salvador Rueda with Juan Alameda, Avenida Ramon y Cajal with Felix Rodríguez de la Fuente, and the start of Calle Peral.

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Over the next three months, they will collect continuous data, spot pollution spikes, and help produce a final report with recommendations for managing Marbella’s air quality.

The LEZ will eventually be backed by a formal municipal ordinance, expected to come into force either at the end of 2025 or mid-2026, following technical studies and legal preparation.

In the meantime, the council has also upgraded signage across the Old Town, with new plates in streets including Benalmadena, Juan de la Rosa, Huerta Chica, San Francisco, Postigo, Atarazanas, and around the San Pedro LEZ.

The aim is to make it clear to drivers which areas are part of the low-emission zone and keep the push for a greener Marbella on track.

Click here to read more Green News from The Olive Press.

Dilip Kuner

Dilip Kuner is a NCTJ-trained journalist whose first job was on the Folkestone Herald as a trainee in 1988.
He worked up the ladder to be chief reporter and sub editor on the Hastings Observer and later news editor on the Bridlington Free Press.
At the time of the first Gulf War he started working for the Sunday Mirror, covering news stories as diverse as Mick Jagger’s wedding to Jerry Hall (a scoop gleaned at the bar at Heathrow Airport) to massive rent rises at the ‘feudal village’ of Princess Diana’s childhood home of Althorp Park.
In 1994 he decided to move to Spain with his girlfriend (now wife) and brought up three children here.
He initially worked in restaurants with his father, before rejoining the media world in 2013, working in the local press before becoming a copywriter for international firms including Accenture, as well as within a well-known local marketing agency.
He joined the Olive Press as a self-employed journalist during the pandemic lock-down, becoming news editor a few months later.
Since then he has overseen the news desk and production of all six print editions of the Olive Press and had stories published in UK national newspapers and appeared on Sky News.

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