Air quality

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 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

On the following pages you will find information on:

• Going Smokefree in Kensington and Chelsea
• Air quality monitoring in the Royal Borough
• Sources and health effects of air pollution
• Air quality management
• Pollution Prevention and Control
• Pollution notifications in 2007
• Maps of modelled air quality concentrations

Review and Assessment of Air Quality

Our monitoring results show that air quality has generally been improving for many years. However work that predicts future air quality, shows that levels of two pollutants, fine particles (PM10) and nitrogen dioxide (NO2), remain above Government objectives and NO2 will not be sufficiently reduced by the target year of 2005.

Some of this work can be seen on the maps that have been used for declaring an Air Quality Management Area in the Royal Borough. The whole Borough was declared an Air Quality Management Area in 2000. The Air Quality Action Plan brings together 25 actions to help to reduce levels of nitrogen dioxide and particulates to within government limits by 2005. Our most recent report, the Local Air Quality Management Progress Report, was completed in April 2005 and combines our latest monitoring data and action plan progress report.

	Air Quality Progress Report 2007 – Local Air Quality Management Progress Report 2007	(750 Kb)
	Air Quality Progress Report 2007 – Air Quality Action Plan – Update Report 2007	(260 Kb)
	Air Quality Progress Report 2007 – Local Air Quality Management Report Glossary and Appendix	(422 Kb)
	Updating and Screening Assessment and Action Plan Update 2006	(761 Kb)
	Local Air Quality Management Progress Report 2005	(861 Kb)
	LAQM 2005 Appendix- Air Quality Report 2003	(314 Kb)
	Updating and Screening Assessment	(1.48 Mb)
	Air Quality Action Plan Progress Report 2004	(191 Kb)
	Air Quality Action Plan	(639 Kb)
	Stage Four Review and Assessment	(1.86 Mb)

Contacting the Environmental Quality Unit

We want residents to contact us at the Environment Quality Unit and let us know their ideas for reducing air pollution. You can email us with your opinions now to air.quality@rbkc.gov.uk.

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.

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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