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2012 Air Quality Updating and Screening Assessment for Harborough District Council 2012 Air Quality Updating and Screening Assessment for Harborough District Council In fulfilment of Part IV of the Environment Act 1995 Local Air Quality Management April 2012 Harborough District Council Local Authority Officer Gareth Rees Environment Team Department Regulatory Services Council Offices Adam and Eve Street Address Market Harborough Leicestershire LE16 7AG Telephone 01858 828282 e-mail [email protected] Report Reference number LAQM-2012USA Date 26 April 2012 LAQM USA 2012 i Harborough District Council 1 Executive Summary Under Part IV of the Environment Act 1995 there is a requirement for all Local Authorities to assess their local air quality and to predict future conditions against the National Air Quality Standards. This report has been compiled as part of the fifth round of the air quality assessment for Harborough District Council. The Update and screening assessment has been carried out in accordance with the requirements of the DEFRA guidance LAQM.TG(09) [10]. The report has found that: • Air quality in the district is generally within the Air Quality Standard • That there are exceedences of the air quality standard in and around the Lutterworth Air Quality Management Area (AQMA). The following actions are being taken by the authority • Publish the Lutterworth AQMA Further Assessment • Publish the draft air quality action plan for public consultation LAQM USA 2012 ii Harborough District Council 2 Table of contents 1 Executive Summary ii 2 Table of contents iii 2.1 List Of Tables v 2.2 List Of Figures vi 2.3 Appendices vi 3 Introduction 1 3.1 Description Of Local Authority Area 1 3.2 Purpose Of Report 4 3.3 Air Quality Objectives 4 3.4 Summary Of Previous Review And Assessments 6 4 Data handling and modelling 9 4.1 Façade Correction 9 4.2 Annualisation 10 5 New Monitoring Data 11 5.1 Summary Of Monitoring Undertaken 11 5.1.1 Automatic Monitoring Sites 11 5.1.2 Non-Automatic Monitoring Sites 13 5.2 Comparison Of Monitoring Results With AQ Objectives 16 5.2.1 Nitrogen Dioxide 16 5.2.2 PM 10 21 5.2.3 Sulphur Dioxide 21 5.2.4 Benzene 21 5.2.5 Other pollutants monitored 21 6 Summary of Compliance with Air Quality Standards [AQS] Objectives 21 6.1 Nitrogen Dioxide 21 6.1.1 Lutterworth 21 6.1.2 Kibworth 21 LAQM USA 2012 iii Harborough District Council 6.1.3 Market Harborough 22 6.1.4 Theddingworth 22 6.1.5 Walcote 22 7 Road Traffic Sources 23 7.1 Narrow Congested Streets With Residential Properties Close To The Kerb 23 7.2 Busy Streets Where People May Spend 1-Hour Or More Close To Traffic 23 7.3 Roads with A High Flow Of Buses And/Or HGVs. 23 7.4 Junctions 23 7.5 New Roads Constructed Or Proposed Since The Last Round Of Review And Assessment 23 7.6 Roads With Significantly Changed Traffic Flows 24 7.7 Bus And Coach Stations 24 8 Other Transport Sources 25 8.1 Airports 25 8.2 Railways (Diesel and Steam Trains) 25 8.2.1 Stationary Trains 25 8.2.2 Moving Trains 25 8.3 Ports (Shipping) 25 9 Industrial Sources 26 9.1 Industrial Installations 26 9.1.1 New or Proposed Installations for which an Air Quality Assessment has been Carried Out 26 9.1.2 Existing Installations where Emissions have Increased Substantially or New Relevant Exposure has been Introduced 26 9.1.3 New or Significantly Changed Installations with No Previous Air Quality Assessment 26 9.2 Major Fuel (Petrol) Storage Depots 26 9.3 Petrol Stations 26 LAQM USA 2012 iv Harborough District Council 9.4 Poultry Farms 26 10 Commercial and Domestic Sources 27 10.1 Biomass Combustion – Individual Installations 27 10.2 Biomass Combustion – Combined Impacts 27 10.3 Domestic Solid-Fuel Burning 27 11 Fugitive or Uncontrolled Sources 27 12 Action Plan Progress Report 28 13 Conclusions and Proposed Actions 32 13.1 Conclusions From New Monitoring Data 32 13.2 Conclusions From Assessment Of Sources 32 13.3 Proposed Actions 32 14 References 33 14.1 Legislation And Statutory Instruments 33 14.2 British Standards 34 14.3 Technical Guidance 34 14.4 Previous Air Quality Reports 34 14.5 Other Documents 36 14.6 Models 38 15 Appendices 39 2.1 List Of Tables Table 1. Air Quality Objectives included in Regulations for the purpose of LAQM in England 5 Table 2. Details of Automatic Monitoring Sites 11 Table 3. Details of Non-Automatic Monitoring Sites 15 Table 4. Results of Automatic Monitoring of Nitrogen Dioxide: Comparison with Annual Mean Objective 16 LAQM USA 2012 v Harborough District Council Table 5. Results of Automatic Monitoring for Nitrogen Dioxide: Comparison with 1-hour mean Objective 16 Table 6. Results of Nitrogen Dioxide Diffusion Tubes in 2011 18 Table 7. Results of Nitrogen Dioxide Diffusion Tubes (2005 to 2011) 19 Table 8. Action Plan Progress 29 2.2 List Of Figures Figure. 1. Map of Harborough District 3 Figure. 2. Map of Lutterworth AQMA Boundary 2012 8 Figure. 3. Box 2.3: Predicting nitrogen dioxide concentrations at different distances from road of the technical guidance [11] 9 Figure. 4. Estimation of annual mean concentrations from short-term monitoring data 10 Figure. 5. Map of AURN Automatic Monitoring Site 12 Figure. 6. Map of Non-Automatic Monitoring Sites 14 Figure. 7. Trends in Annual Mean Nitrogen Dioxide Concentrations measured at Automatic Monitoring Site Eyebrook Reservoir 17 Figure. 8. Trends in Annual Mean Nitrogen Dioxide Concentrations measured at Diffusion Tube Monitoring Sites 20 2.3 Appendices Appendix A. Highways Traffic Data 40 Appendix B. Data from AURN Site Eyebrook Reservoir 41 Appendix C. NO 2 Diffusion Tube Data and Handling 42 LAQM USA 2012 vi Harborough District Council 3 Introduction 3.1 Description Of Local Authority Area Harborough District Council is a diverse, largely rural authority covering approximately 590 Km 2 (230 square miles) of Southern Leicestershire, as shown in Figure. 1. Geographically it is the largest of the Leicestershire districts. Approximately 84,00 people (estimated June 2010 by The Office for National Statistics [34]) live within the District. The two major population centres are the market towns of Market Harborough and Lutterworth, providing the main shopping and business services. These two towns, together with the villages of Thurnby, Bushby and Scraptoft adjoining Leicester City, and the villages of Broughton Astley, Great Glen, Kibworth and Fleckney accommodate 67% of the district population. The remaining residents live in villages varying from populations of several hundreds to hamlets comprising of a handful of dwellings. The District borders on to the suburbs of Leicester to the north, Rutland to the east, Warwickshire to the west and Northamptonshire to the south. Located at the heart of England, Harborough District has excellent communication links. The M1, M6 “Catthorpe” interchange connects Harborough District to Felixstowe, Birmingham, London and Edinburgh. The M1 and M6 and A14 are all identified on the Trans-European Network. The A5, A6, A5199 and A47 also run through the district which are a major part of the East Midlands road network and consequently are heavily used. The Midland Main Line railway runs through the district and Market Harborough has an Inter-City station with direct links to London St. Pancras. These good communication links have encouraged a number of industrial estates to develop, containing medium sized businesses carrying out a LAQM USA 2012 1 Harborough District Council range of coating and spraying activities, moulding, and timber processes. In the south west of the District there is a cluster of mineral activities including sand and gravel extraction, cement batching plants and other associated products. Although agriculture still plays an important role in the local economy, manufacturing and distribution are of ever increasing importance. At the extreme western side of the District is Magna Park, which is a major warehousing and distribution site, covering approximately 2.3Km 2 (0.9 square miles). A number of the major manufacturers within the UK are located on this site and the 24-hour operation results in a great deal of traffic as most of the products are transported by road. Magna Park is located between the M1 and the A5, therefore a majority of the traffic is directed onto these major roads; however the nearby town of Lutterworth is affected by the increase in road traffic. LAQM USA 2012 2 Harborough District Council Figure. 1. Map of Harborough District 1:250,000 µ 01,600 3,200 6,400 9,600 12,800 Meters Reproduced from Ordnance Survey Mapping with permission of the Controller of Her Majesty's Stationery Office. ©Crown Copyright Unauthorised reproduction infringes Crown Copyright and may lead to prosecution or civil proceedings. Harborough District Council 100023843 2007 LAQM USA 2012 3 Harborough District Council 3.2 Purpose Of Report This report fulfils the requirements of the Local Air Quality Management process as set out in Part IV of the Environment Act (1995), the Air Quality Strategy for England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland 2007 and the relevant Policy and Technical Guidance documents. The LAQM process places an obligation on all local authorities to regularly review and assess air quality in their areas, and to determine whether or not the air quality objectives are likely to be achieved. Where exceedences are considered likely, the local authority must then declare an Air Quality Management Area (AQMA) and prepare an Air Quality Action Plan (AQAP) setting out the measures it intends to put in place in pursuit of the objectives. The objective of this Updating and Screening Assessment (USA) is to identify any matters that have changed which may lead to risk of an air quality objective being exceeded.
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