More than a quarter of neighbourhoods in England have pollution levels that are highly harmful to wildlife, new data shows.

Friends of the Earth has named 27.5% of areas “nature pollution hotspots” in new research. These are defined as places where air, water, noise and light pollution all exceed levels that are damaging to nature.

Chelsea and Fulham was identified as the parliamentary constituency with the highest concentration of pollution hotspots, followed by Salford, Worsley and Eccles, Vauxhall and Camberwell, and Battersea.

The research found that 9,062 out of 32,844 neighbourhoods in England, areas of about 1,500 people designated for statistical purposes such as conducting the national census, are pollution hotspots.