Environmental Protection
Air quality
The team has been leading the review of local air quality that all councils are required to undertake in line with the UK Air Quality Strategy. This involves monitoring air quality around the borough and predicting where the national standards are likely to be breached.
Air Quality information for Barking and Dagenham can be found on the London Air Quality Network website. If you wish to receive text alerts you can sign up free on the Air text website.
Air quality detailed assessment consultation
We are required to review and assess air quality against the objectives in the Air Quality Regulations 2000 and the amendment regulations as part of a rolling 3 year cycle that ends in 2010.
We have declared an Air Quality Management Area along the A13. Once an area is declared, we have to draw up an action plan of how the pollution levels can be improved. There is a consultation on the proposal to expand our air quality management area across the whole borough.
This will not only affect those who live and work in the area, but anyone those who uses the roads in Barking and Dagenham.
The air quality objectives to be assessed are for the following 7 pollutants:
- Carbon monoxide
- Benzene
- 1,3-Butadiene
- Lead
- Nitrogen dioxide
- Sulphur dioxide; and
- Particles (PM10)
Documents
Stage 4 Modelling, March 2003 
PDF 2.08M
Update and Screening Assessment, February 2004 PDF 1.42M
Air Quality Action Plan, June 2004 PDF 1.10M
Air Quality Action Plan, December 2004 PDF 85K
Update and Screening Assessment, July 2006 PDF 510K
Detailed Assessment, April 2008 PDF 2.32M
Air Quality and Action Plan Progress Report PDF 342K
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Leaflets
Air pollution - UK Government leaflet|
Useful web links
Defra, UK - Environmental Protection|
National Society for Clean Air|
