2013 Air Quality Progress Report for High Peak Borough Council

High Peak Borough Council Date : January 2014 2013 Air Quality Progress Report for High Peak Borough Council In fulfillment of Part IV of the Environment Act 1995 Local Air Quality Management Date: January 2014 2013 Progress Report i Date January 2014 High Peak Borough Council Local Mike Towers Authority Officer Department Environmental Health Address Town Hall Buxton Derbyshire SK7 6EL Telephone 0845 129 7777, ext. 4621 e-mail [email protected] Report Progress report for January to Reference December 2012 number Date January 2014 ii 2013 Progress Report High Peak Borough Council Date : January 2014 Executive Summary Under Part IV of the Environment Act 1995, every Local Authority must periodically review the air quality within its area. Regulations set out air quality objectives for seven pollutants which should be achieved by dates varying from 2003 to 2010 (the relevant dates). The pollutants, together with their respective air quality objective levels, are listed in Table 1. Each LA must consider the air quality at the present time, and the likely future air quality. The LA must decide whether the air quality objective for each pollutant is likely to be achieved by the relevant date, as shown in Table 1. In the first round of air quality review and assessment, we carried out the first and second stages, and concluded that the air quality objectives would be met by the relevant dates, and that further work was not necessary. Reports were issued in 1998 and 2000 detailing these findings. We produced Upgrading and Screening Assessment Reports in 2003, 2006, 2009 and 2012 and Progress Reports in 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008 and 2011. Our 2012 Updating and Screening Assessment Report concluded that the air quality objectives for all seven pollutants would be met by the relevant dates, with the exception of annual mean nitrogen dioxide along parts of the A628. This current report supports these conclusions and contains an update on the progress of the Detailed Assessment in connection with the A628 at Tintwistle. 2013 Progress Report iii Date January 2014 High Peak Borough Council Table of contents 1 Introduction 6 1.1 Description of Local Authority Area 6 1.2 Purpose of Progress Report 7 1.3 Air Quality Objectives 7 1.4 Summary of Previous Review and Assessments 9 2 New Monitoring Data 10 2.1 Summary of Monitoring Undertaken 10 2.2 Comparison of Monitoring Results with Air Quality Objectives 13 3 New Local Developments 21 3.1 Road Traffic Sources 21 3.2 Other Transport Sources 21 3.3 Industrial Sources 22 3.4 Commercial and Domestic Sources 22 3.5 New Developments with Fugitive or Uncontrolled Sources 22 4 Local / Regional Air Quality Strategy 24 5 Planning Applications 25 6 Air Quality Planning Policies 26 7 Conclusions and Proposed Actions 27 8 References 28 Appendices Appendix A QA/QC Data Appendix B Monthly Mean Nitrogen Dioxide Concentrations: 2012 Appendix C Maps Showing Locations of Nitrogen Dioxide Tubes iv 2013 Progress Report High Peak Borough Council Date : January 2014 List of Tables Table 1 Air Quality Objectives included in Regulations for the purpose of Local Quality Management in England Table 2 Details of Non-Automatic Monitoring Sites Table 3 Results of Nitrogen Dioxide Diffusion Tubes 2013 Progress Report v Date January 2014 High Peak Borough Council 1 Introduction 1.1 Description of Local Authority Area High Peak is one of nine district authorities within Derbyshire. It is located in the north west of the County and abuts the Greater Manchester conurbation to the west. To the east of High Peak are the metropolitan areas of Sheffield and Barnsley. Listed below are some statistics relating to High Peak. Area: 53,715 hectares Population: 91,140 Population of main towns:- Buxton: 24,112 Chapel-en-le-Frith 6,416 Glossop: 32,428 New Mills: 8,139 Whaley Bridge: 6,228 Number of dwellings: 38,187 High Peak is crossed by the A6, the A628 and the A57. The A628 traverses the north of the area, from Hollingsworth and through Tintwistle. The A6 enters High Peak at New Mills, follows an easterly and then a southerly direction, through Chapel-en-le- Frith and Buxton, crossing the borough boundary east of Buxton. The A57 runs from Glossop eastwards to Ladybower Reservoir. Glossop and Chapel-en-le-Frith are joined by the A624. The A515 is a route from Buxton through one of the main quarrying areas. There are no motorways crossing High Peak. Although many people may regard High Peak as being predominantly rural in character, the area in fact contains concentrations of industry. At present the Council regulates 67 processes under the Environmental Permitting Regulations 2007. A further 17 processes are regulated by the Environment Agency. The Environment Agency-controlled processes comprise a variety of different types of industry: cement, lime, inorganic and organic chemical processes. The processes controlled by the Council are varied. A significant number involve the extraction and/or processing of minerals, or use of bulk cement. There are a number of operations which involve coating processes using solvents, together also with industries which use di-isocyanates. 6 2011 Progress Report High Peak Borough Council Date : January 2014 1.2 Purpose of Progress Report Progress Reports are required in the intervening years between the three-yearly Updating and Screening Assessment reports. Their purpose is to maintain continuity in the Local Air Quality Management process. They are not intended to be as detailed as Updating and Screening Assessment Reports, or to require as much effort. However, if the Progress Report identifies the risk of exceedence of an Air Quality Objective, the Local Authority (LA) should undertake a Detailed Assessment immediately, and not wait until the next round of Review and Assessment. Following our Updating and Screening Assessment Report submitted in 2012, the Council prepared a Detailed Assessment (DA) in connection with the NOx exceedence risk identified at our permanent monitoring station on the A628 at Tintwistle in the High Peak. The DA identified a programme of further monitoring to verify the unusual data from the monitoring station, and to provide data for air quality dispersion modelling in connection with the actual impact on the local residential population. This Progress Report covers the period January to December 2012, and contains an update on the action plan identified in the DA. 1.3 Air Quality Objectives The air quality objectives applicable to LAQM in England are set out in the Air Quality Standards Regulations 2010 and are shown in Table 1. This table shows the objectives in units of microgrammes per cubic metre g/m3 (milligrammes per cubic metre, mg/m3 for carbon monoxide) with the number of exceedences in each year that are permitted (where applicable). 2013 Progress Report 7 Date January 2014 High Peak Borough Council Table 1.1 Air Quality Objectives included in Regulations for the purpose of LAQM in England Air Quality Objective Date to be Pollutant Concentration Measured as achieved by Running annual 16.25 µg/m3 31.12.2003 mean Benzene Running annual 5.00 µg/m3 31.12.2010 mean Running annual 1,3-Butadiene 2.25 µg/m3 31.12.2003 mean Running 8-hour Carbon monoxide 10.0 mg/m3 31.12.2003 mean 0.5 µg/m3 Annual mean 31.12.2004 Lead 0.25 µg/m3 Annual mean 31.12.2008 200 µg/m3 not to be exceeded more 1-hour mean 31.12.2005 Nitrogen dioxide than 18 times a year 40 µg/m3 Annual mean 31.12.2005 50 µg/m3, not to be exceeded more 24-hour mean 31.12.2004 Particles (PM10) than 35 times a (gravimetric) year 40 µg/m3 Annual mean 31.12.2004 350 µg/m3, not to be exceeded more 1-hour mean 31.12.2004 than 24 times a year 125 µg/m3, not to Sulphur dioxide be exceeded more 24-hour mean 31.12.2004 than 3 times a year 266 µg/m3, not to be exceeded more 15-minute mean 31.12.2005 than 35 times a year 8 2011 Progress Report High Peak Borough Council Date : January 2014 1.4 Summary of Previous Review and Assessments Our previous rounds of review and assessment from 2000 to 2007 did not identify any likely exeedences of the air quality objectives. However, we reported in our April 2008 Progress Report that exeedences for NO2 had been identified. As part of an environmental assessment for the proposed A57/A628 Mottram – Tintwistle Bypass, Hyder Consulting exposed a large number of diffusion tubes in the area. Six locations on the A628 indicated exceedences of the annual air quality objective. We refer to this further in Section 2.2.1. We have produced the following reports: Air Quality Review - Stage 1 Report 1998 Air Quality Review - Stage 2 Report 2000 Updating and Screening Assessment 2003 Progress Report 2004 Progress Report 2005 Updating and Screening Assessment 2006 Progress Report 2007 Progress Report 2008 Updating and Screening Assessment 2009 Progress Report 2010-11 Updating and Screening Assessment 2012 Detailed Assessment 2012 2013 Progress Report 9 Date January 2014 High Peak Borough Council 2 New Monitoring Data 2.1 Summary of Monitoring Undertaken 2.1.1 Automatic Monitoring Sites An automatic site to monitor nitrogen dioxide was established in June 2011, located at the kerbside on the A628 at Pegasus Crossing in Tintwistle. The equipment installed consists of a weatherproof enclosure provided by Casella Measurement and an ML 9841b NOX analyser with internal zero and span (IZS). The monitor is positioned at a 'kerbside' location on the ‘Pegasus crossing’ of the A628 approximately 200m east of Tintwistle.

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