2014 Air Quality Progress Report for Fareham Borough Council In fulfillment of Part IV of the Environment Act 1995 Local Air Quality Management October 2014 LAQM Progress Report 2014 1 Fareham Borough Council Local Authority Heather Cusack Officer Department Regulatory Services Civic Offices Civic Way Address Fareham Hampshire PO16 7AZ Telephone 01329 236100 e-mail
[email protected] Report Reference LAQM PROGRESS REPORT 2014 number Date October 2014 Alex Moon Prepared by Technical Officer Date October 2014 Ian Rickman Approved by Shared Head of Environmental Health Partnership Date October 2014 Signature LAQM Progress Report 2014 2 Fareham Borough Council Executive Summary Fareham Borough Council has undertaken this 2014 progress report in fulfilment of the Local Air Quality Management (LAQM) process as set out in Part IV of the Environment Act (1995), the Air Quality Strategy (AQS) for England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland 2007 and the relevant Policy and Technical Guidance documents. Two Air Quality Management Areas (AQMAs) are still currently in place at Gosport Road and Portland Street for nitrogen dioxide (NO2). Following the conclusions of this report it is recommended that the present AQMA declarations should remain. The monitoring data for 2013 has indicated that the annual mean NO2 objective was achieved at all monitoring locations except for two sites within the existing AQMAs that is, G7 and PS3 and one site outside the existing AQMAs, G10. A detailed assessment was conducted at G10 in 2010 which showed no exceedances at the façade of the properties and the AQMAs were not adjusted. As the exceedance is marginal (40.50µg/m3), a continuation of monitoring will take place in order to fully assess whether a detailed assessment is required in the future.