London boroughs are being invited to put together plans to tackle air quality hotspots.

Under the Mayor of London’s new Low Emission Neighbourhood scheme, up to two £1 million neighbourhoods will be funded as part of the Mayor’s £20 million Air Quality Fund.

The scheme aims to tackle the challenge of air quality in London, encouraging boroughs to look at solutions tackling various sources of emissions, changing behaviour and raising awareness.

Boroughs in the capital are being invited to apply by the end of July, with the first two schemes expected to be up and running by June 2016.

Mayor of London Boris Johnson said: “These innovations help reduce carbon and have boosted London's green economy to almost £30 billion a year, with over 160,000 jobs.

“Embracing this technology as part of our everyday lives is vital and I've supported hundreds of smart systems from recycling household items into fuel, to apps that advise on low congestion routes to the wonderful green Tardis revamping underused phone boxes into solar powered mobile recharging stations.”

The second round of the Mayor’s Air Quality Fund, which has committed £20 million for borough air quality projects between 2012 and 2021, will offer up to £400,000 to boroughs for individual projects.