Air quality is a critical consideration for any development project, with potential impacts on human health, the environment, and regulatory compliance. Lucion’s team of air quality specialists provide the expertise you need to navigate this complex landscape, conducting comprehensive assessments, implementing monitoring programs, and designing cost-effective mitigation solutions to ensure your project meets all relevant standards.
The Importance of Air Quality
Within the UK, air pollution contributes to more than 36,000 deaths and costs the economy an estimated £20 billion a year.
Our services help businesses, developers and regulators:
- Navigate air quality and the planning system
- Achieve compliance with Environmental Permits, Statutory reporting requirements and planning conditions
- Reduce health risks for employees and communities
Navigating the air quality requirements for your project can be a daunting challenge, but our specialist air quality team at Lucion Delta-Simons Ltd are here to help. We deliver a comprehensive range of air quality services tailored to meet the specific needs of your project, whether you’re in the early planning stages or well into the construction phase.
Key services include:
Air Quality Assessments
Lucion’s team of air quality experts provides detailed assessments to evaluate the potential impacts of your development, both during construction and the operational phase. These assessments, tailored to support Planning Applications and Environmental Impact Assessments (EIA), cover a wide range of sectors including commercial and residential, energy and waste management, industrial processes, and agricultural applications.
We can achieve this through:
- Detailed baseline reviews of information from UK-Air, LAQM and Department for Transport
- Detailed technical dispersion modelling using industry-standard tools like ADMS-Roads, ADMS 5, AERMOD, and Screen-View.
- Monitoring studies using methods such as diffusion tubes to monitor traffic emissions
- Air Quality Due Diligence
As a critical early step, our consultants conduct Air Quality studies to describe the existing state of air quality, identify potential pollutants and emission sources, and determine potential direct, indirect, and cumulative effects. These studies help understand constraints and provide cost-effective solutions by identifying significant issues at the earliest design stages.
Dust and Odour Monitoring and Assessment
As a multidisciplinary team, we offer a range of services to address dust and odour issues, including risk assessments, dispersion modelling, monitoring, and the development of management plans and mitigation strategies.
These assessments aid the planning and regulatory process for activities like demolition, construction, minerals extraction, and waste management and are often enforced by condition.
Air Quality Neutral/Air Quality Positive
There is a requirement in the Greater London Plan for ‘major’ developments (10 or more residential dwellings, or an area greater than 0.5 hectares) to be ‘air quality neutral’ with any EIA development needing to be ‘air quality positive’. Lucion are able to complete this assessment and fulfil this requirement.
Emission Inventories and Environmental Permitting
We assist you in developing accurate emission inventories and navigating the environmental permitting process. Our consultants design mitigation strategies to ensure compliance with regulatory obligations for installations, waste operations, pollutant discharges, and energy generation activities.
Working with Local Authorities
Our expert team have a wealth of experience preparing Air Quality Action Plans, Annual Status Reports, Detailed Assessment and input into Local Plans for Local Authorities across the UK.
Expert Witness Services
Our Air Quality experts have experience preparing information and delivering evidence at Public Hearings, Planning Appeals, Nationally Significant Infrastructure Development Consent Order applications and Planning Committees.
By partnering with Lucion, you can be confident that your project will satisfy all relevant air quality regulations and guidelines, while also minimising impacts on human health and the environment. Our client-centric approach and multidisciplinary Environmental Planning Team ensure cost-effective solutions that keep your project on track.
