East Herts Council’s environmental guru wants air monitoring at Hockerill to lead to a paradigm shift in how Bishop’s Stortford people travel. The authority’s executive member for environmental sustainability, Cllr Tim Hoskin (Green, Hertford Heath and Brickendon) was commenting on new “real-time” recording of pollution at the congestion blackspot as he introduced his final draft of the district’s Air Quality Action Plan. His fellow cabinet members approved the strategy which must now be ratified by the full council and then the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA). The c…