Consultation has ended on planning guidelines used for assessing air quality impacts of developments. The Institute of Air Quality Management and Epuk are jointly producing the guidelines which cover issues such as mitigation and spatial planning. They will...
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Consultation has ended on planning guidelines used for assessing air quality impacts of developments. The Institute of Air Quality Management and Epuk are jointly producing the guidelines which cover issues such as mitigation and spatial planning. They will be relaunched on April 15th at a conference in London. The guidelines have attracted unwelcome attention. Campaigner Simon Birkett has resigned from the committee over the issue of what is and isn’t illegal. He contends that it is illegal to allow further development in areas where air quality breaches EU directives. The counter argument is that just because monitoring may be over the limit, the EU relies on modelling and wider inputs. The group declined to allow Birkett to include a disclaimer in the report: “Members of the group are making a contribution as individuals and not representing the views of any one organisation. The published document will contain a note explaining that individual members may not agree with all its con
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