Residents of England's most polluted spot divided over solution

In summer, 20,000 vehicles a day pass through Chideock village in Dorset, flooding the air with toxic nitrogen dioxide

With the title of England's worst road pollution hotspot this week being placed on a small village on the Jurassic Coast, the problem of toxic NO₂ fumes is in the spotlight - not just as a public hazard for big cities but for countryside residents too.

And it's expected to get worse. While Friends of the Earth this week revealed the latest figures showing 1,360 sites across England were breaching the air quality objective levels for NO₂, road traffic forecasts from the Department of Transport show traffic volumes are expected to increase in England and Wales each year until 2050, potentially by up to 51% in total.