Planning consideration

Air quality management areas

Details

• Name: Air quality management areas
• Description: Areas where air pollution levels have exceeded the national air quality objectives
• Synonyms:
  • Air quality management locations
  • AQMA
• Github discussion: 55
• Legislation: The Environment Act 1995
• Useful links:
  • Fact sheet url
• Stage: On the platform
• Prioritised: False
• Tags:
  • local plan
  • geography

Data related

• Datasets:

  Air quality management area

  See dataset on planning.data

• OS declaration What are the OS declaration options?: Unknown
• Expected number of records: 643
• Frequency of updates: Ad hoc

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Design process stages

Each planning consideration we work on passes through the stages of our design process. At each stage we are trying to learn enough to more on to the next stage.

• Backlog
• Screen
• Research

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4 notes

• Colm Britton (04 February 2025)

  We have posted a summary of what we learnt analysing the existing dataset.

• Kieran Wint (04 September 2024)

  As per some research we did, summarised in this blog on an analysis of local plans and local area requirements, we're confident that this consideration acts as an INPUT to the process of creating a local plan.

• elliotrowen (03 September 2024)

  No specific date for frequency update was identified, however it was assumed this would be updated 'ad hoc', as and when an area needed to improve the air quality.

• Kieran Wint (30 July 2024)

  The dataset found is a snapshot in time, so we may need to work further with Defra to ensure we would always have the most up-to-date data.

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Last updated: 2025-04-24 15:28:45