A GREEN-MINDED councillor is set to call for changes to be made to vehicles owned by Bromsgrove District Council.

Cllr David McGrath (Lab, Beacon) says the time is right for the authority to spearhead its environmental health clean air policy.

The district's Labour spokesman on environmental health says the council can do this by converting all its vehicles to liquid petroleum gas (LPG).

This would help reduce high density carbon monoxide pumped into the air by car exhausts, address global warming and make the council's motors less vulnerable in any future fuel crisis. They would also work better in cold weather.

Cllr McGrath said if all the authority's heavy goods vehicles were converted to gas the cost of transporting goods would be cut.

He plans to raise these points at one of the council's future committee meetings.

Environmental health committee chairman Cllr John Tidmarsh (Con, Stoke Prior) said the council was currently looking at the issue.