Including the closely related terms improve air quality, local air quality, and air pollution.
…; • Managing visitor pressure – providing a recreation and visitor resource for a more outdoors lifestyle and helping to divert pressure from landscapes which are sensitive to climate change; and • Reducing soil erosion – using vegetation to stabilise soils that many be vulnerable to increasing erosion. September 2020 12 Part 2: Air Quality Introduction 3.1. Air pollution is a growing…
… published their new Clean Air Strategy 2019 and proposed a new Clean Air (Human Rights) Bill (HL Bill 118). Any developing changes in national policy deemed to influence the Council’s approach to improving air quality will need to be considered. National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) 3.10. Paragraph 181 of NPPF (February 2019) states: September 2020 14 “Planning policies…
… and decisions should sustain and contribute towards compliance with relevant limit values or national objectives for pollutants, taking into account the presence of Air Quality Management Areas and Clean Air Zones, and the cumulative impacts from individual sites in local areas…” 3.11. Para 181 of NPPF 2019 goes on to say: ” …Opportunities to improve air quality or mitigate impacts should…
… be identified, such as through traffic and travel management, and green infrastructure provision and enhancement.” This part of the NPPF suggests that the policy should also seek opportunities to improve air quality, and is not limited to purely preventing new and existing development from contributing to, being put at unacceptable risk from, or being adversely affected by, unacceptable levels…
… of local Air Quality Management Plan (AQMP) in their area through identifying appropriate measures, which would then be included in the AQMP and delivered by the Local Authorities. To this end, Local Authorities need to undertake local assessments to develop an option for the AQMP that will achieve likely compliance within the shortest possible time. 3.14. In July 2017, DEFRA issued…