Air quality consultation
The purpose of this consultation is to seek your views on Perth & Kinross Council's Air Quality Action Plan (AQAP) for the Air Quality Management Area (AQMA) designated in 2006.
Perth & Kinross Council's Air Quality Action Plan (AQAP)
The AQAP is a package of measures designed to reduce traffic pollution in Perth so that compliance with health based objectives for air quality can be achieved. The AQMA currently covers the whole city, and was designated because of measured and predicted exceedences of the annual mean objectives for nitrogen dioxide (NO2) and fine particulate material (PM10). Perth & Kinross Council has a statutory duty to work towards achieving these objectives by implementing an AQAP.
Both NO2 and PM10 can cause health effects, particularly where a person already has problems with their breathing, for example in those with asthma. These pollutants are mainly emitted from traffic, and objectives can commonly be exceeded in areas where there is congestion, or where building effects prevent natural dispersal of vehicle fumes. These conditions currently exist in certain parts of Perth city centre and implementation of an AQAP should help to alleviate air quality problems and allow the Council to move towards achieving the objectives.
Consultation documents
Please have a look at the Draft Air Quality Action Plan consultation document [PDF: 1.1Mb].
Additional information
More detailed reports on the AQAP, the Strategic Environmental Assessment of the AQMA and possible Climate Change implications are also available.
Please note the following reports are in draft form due to technical difficulties. However all contents are correct, and finalized versions will be posted in due course, we apologise for this delay.
Have your say
Members of the public now have until Friday 29 August 2008 to contribute to a special consultation exercise on the issue, which impacts on everyone who lives in, works in or visits the city regularly which will help form the final version of the Action Plan which will in due course be put before the Scottish Government for approval.
Responses to the consultation can be submitted by filling in the online response form or send to:
Tom J Brydone, Environmental Health Manager, The Environment Service, Perth & Kinross Council, Pullar House, 35 Kinnoull Street, Perth PH1 5GD.
