Environmental Quality Unit
Directorate of Environmental Health
Council Offices
37 Pembroke Road
LONDON
W8 6PW
Tel: 020 7361 3002: Environmental Healthline
Textphone: 07967 347802
020 7361 3002: Environmental Healthline
Fax: 020 7341 5645
Website: www.rbkc.gov.uk
Email: air.quality@rbkc.gov.uk
environmentalhealth@rbkc.gov.uk: Environmental Healthline
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The Royal Borough is working with a number of partner organisations to raise awareness of the importance of indoor air quality. As part of this initiative we have produced a leaflet which looks at environmental triggers of asthma and provides advice on simple steps you can take to reduce exposure. For further information on this item and more, see: Air quality latest news....
Air pollution can harm human health and the environment. On the following pages you will find information on:
The Environmental Quality Unit (EQU) takes a lead role on air quality issues in the Royal Borough. Our duties include:
We are responsible for monitoring the Royal Borough's air quality to ensure that we know how pollution levels compare to the air quality objective levels, and also to the daily air pollution banding system
Our monitoring results show that air quality has generally been improving for many years. However, levels of two pollutants, fine particles (PM10) and nitrogen dioxide (NO2) stubbornly remain above government objectives in a number of locations and are not predicted to fall below these levels by 2011.
The whole Borough was declared an Air Quality Management Area in 2000. This resulted in the production of the Air Quality Action Plan, which brought together 25 actions to help to improve local air quality. The action plan is currently being revised and a new plan is expected to be adopted in April 2009. We also regularly review and assess pollution levels in the Borough and report on progress annually. Our most recent reports, the Local Air Quality Management Progress Report, and the Action Plan Update Report, were completed in April 2008 and contain our latest monitoring data and progress with implementing action plan measures.
The Mayor of London's Congestion Charge is now in operation and people driving into central London are charged an £8 charge. There is a legitimate way to avoid this charge however, and that is by driving an approved alternative fuelled vehicle. Visit How to help air quality and avoid the congestion charge.
For more information on the western extension and other issues relating to the Congestion Charging Zone see the page: Congestion Charging Archive.
The whole of the borough is also within the London Low Emission Zone, which affects older diesel lorries, buses, coaches, large vans and minibuses. For more information visit the TfL website.
On the following page you will find information on Land Quality:
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