East Staffordshire Borough Council has drafted an updated Air Quality Strategy, which sets out the overarching framework through which air quality will be managed within the Borough and includes our responsibilities under LAQM from 2024 to 2029.
This Strategy supports the Council’s Corporate Plan Priorities for “Standing up for our Communities” by improving the health and wellbeing of our communities, protecting our environment and tackling health inequalities.
This new strategy is also supplemented by two technical documents.
Technical Document 1 is the updated Air Quality Action Plan (AQAP), which also covers the period 2024-2029.
Technical Document 2 is an Air Quality Policy for Development Control, which supplemented the previous 2015-2020 Air Quality Strategy. This document sets out the framework through which East Staffordshire Borough Council assesses air quality within the development control regime. This policy is still current but will be updated in due course and be formally adopted as a Supplementary Planning Document (SPD).
The new AQAP contains a revised set of measures that primarily addresses NO2 within AQMA 1, but also addresses more strategic issues to try and reduce emissions of NO2, PM10 and PM2.5 and carbon dioxide (CO2) across the borough that improves human health and the environment in a more equitable way.
East Staffordshire Borough Council is now consulting on its 2024-2029 Air Quality Strategy and the updated AQAP that forms Technical Document 1 to the Strategy.
If you have any questions or wish to comment on the revised Air Quality Strategy and/or the AQAP please email EHPollution@eaststaffsbc.gov.uk
The consultation period ends on 25/10/2024.