Local Air Quality Management: Air Quality Management Areas

Crawley Borough Council: Review and Assessment Summary

Each local authority is required to review and assess present and likely future air quality in their areas. Various guidance notes have been issued by the Government between 1997 and 2000, instructing local authorities how to carry out the review which is designed to be done in three stages.

Crawley Council's Stage One Report was published in December 1998 and concluded that there might be potential problems from Carbon Monoxide, Nitrogen Dioxide and PM10 (fine particles) in the Crawley area. Since the publication of that report, further work has been carried out to assess if these pollutants are likely to be significant enough to exceed the National Air Quality Objectives.

This Report deals mainly with the subsequent stages of the formal review procedure, known as Stages Two and Three. Based on assessment criteria recommended by the Government's technical guidance, it concludes that the air quality objectives are expected to be achieved in Crawley, apart from a small area of undeveloped land close to an aggregates handling site. The small area affected is part of a large area of farmland where there is the possibility of large scale residential development in the next few years. However an Air Quality Management Area does not need to be declared since the plan for the area's development includes a strip of open space near the aggregates site, to protect any future inhabitants in the area concerned.

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