Air quality

Air pollution can harm human health and the environment. On the following pages you will find information on:

• Air Quality Management
• pollution prevention and control
• indoor air pollution
• going Smokefree in Kensington and Chelsea
• asthma awareness

The Environmental Quality Unit (EQU) takes a lead role on air quality issues in the Royal Borough. Our duties include:

• monitoring a wide range of air pollutants in the Royal Borough
• ensuring that the Council meets its obligations under the National Air Quality Strategy and the Mayor's Air Quality Strategy for London

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

Review and Assessment of Air Quality

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.

 

	Updating and Screening Assessment 2009	(962Kb)
	Air Quality Action Plan Progress Report 2009	(274Kb)
	Air Quality Action Plan Update Report 2008	(639Kb)
	Local Air Quality Management Progress Report 2008	(818Kb)
	Air Quality Progress Report 2007 – Local Air Quality Management Progress Report 2007	(750Kb)
	Air Quality Progress Report 2007 – Air Quality Action Plan – Update Report 2007	(260Kb)
	Air Quality Progress Report 2007 – Local Air Quality Management Report Glossary and Appendix	(422Kb)
	Updating and Screening Assessment and Action Plan Update 2006	(761Kb)
	Local Air Quality Management Progress Report 2005	(861Kb)
	Local Air Quality Management 2005 Appendix- Air Quality Report 2003	(314Kb)
	Updating and Screening Assessment	(1.48Mb)
	Air Quality Action Plan Progress Report 2004	(191Kb)
	Air Quality Report 2004	(222Kb)
	Air Quality Action Plan	(639Kb)
	Stage Four Review and Assessment	(1.86Mb)
	Air Quality Report 2003	(314Kb)
	Air Quality Report 2002	(256Kb)
	Air Quality Report 2001	(617Kb)
	Air Quality Report 2000	(329Kb)

How to help air quality and avoid the congestion charge

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.

Land Quality

On the following page you will find information on Land Quality:

• Land Quality

Environmental Services

• Our Environment Strategy
• Air Quality
• Animal Warden Service
• Cemeteries
• Clinical Waste
• Commercial Waste
• Ecology
• Fault Reports
• Food Hygiene and Standards
• Health and Safety
• Highways and Construction
• Highways Enforcement
• Housing Conditions and Grants
• Land Quality
• Leisure and Parks
• Licensing
• Noise
• Notting Hill Carnival
• Parking
• Pest Control
• Public Toilets
• Recycling, rubbish and litter
• Street Trading
• Street Works
• Trading Standards
• Traffic Management
• Training for Food, Health and Safety
• Useful Links
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