Resources

The event brought together users of low cost ambient AQ sensor systems from various communities to explore best practice; demystify sensor standardisation; and interact with case studies from citizen scientists, academics, industry and government. The Symposium took a forward look at the obstacles, research and learning, and help us identify the next steps that community groups, manufacturers and government need to take to maximise the benefit from this technology. 

Jointly hosted by Defra, National Centre for Atmospheric Science and Institute for Air Quality Management (IAQM). 

Click here to view the post event report. 

Gary Fuller (Senior Lecturer in Air Pollution Measurement ,King’s College London) – Air pollution: past & present (a selected tour & some thoughts)
Claire Holman (Director, Brook Cottage Consultants) – PM 2.5 – meeting the WHO guidelines values
Paul S. Monks (Professor of Atmospheric Chemistry and Earth Observation Science, University of Leicester) – Are ultra-fine particles important?
Mark Barrett (Professor of Energy and Environmental Systems Modelling, University College London) – Will renewable electrification of energy solve air pollution? Not quite!

Dr Jeremy Wiltshire (Knowledge Leader, Agriculture and Environment, Ricardo) – Agricultural ammonia emission mitigation: principles and practices
Grace Whitlow (Environmental Advisor, NFU) – How will the farming sector reduce ammonia emissions?
Mella Waitt (Environment & Business Senior Advisor, the Environment Agency) – Ammonia – Facing the Challenges in Regulated Agriculture

Claire Holman (Brook Cottage Consultants) – Mitigation – Policy and case law 
Fiona Prismall (RPS Group) – Mitigation of development air quality impacts – The IAQM’S position 
Chris Whall (Air Quality Consultants) – Tangible Benefits of Mitigation?
Stephen Inch (GLA) – Mitigating operational impacts of developments

Andrew Baker (Baker Consultants) – Nitrogen deposition: An inconvenient truth for Habitats Regulations Assessments
Claire Holman (Brook Cottage Consultants) – Wealden District Council HRA for Ashdown Forest from an air quality (not ecology) perspective
Simon Bareham & Khalid Aazem (Natural Resources Wales) – Developing a ‘Natural Resources Management’ Approach to Air Quality in Wales to Protect Sensitive Habitats
Chris Field (Manchester Met University) – An application of dynamic modelling to produce site-specific critical load
Philip Davidson (WSP) – Air Quality and Ecology Assessment Document: An Update
Habitats Regulations Assessment Journal – Issue 11, Dec 2018

LINKS COMING SOON

Roger Barrowcliffe (Clear Air Thinking) – Is Indoor Air Quality our Future?
Vina Kukadia (BRE) – The impact of outdoor pollution on indoor air quality
Clive Shrubsole (Public Health England) – Indoor Air Quality and Public Health: Policy and Actions in the UK

LINKS COMING SOON 

Jim Longhurst (UWE) – Are We Serious About Managing Air Quality?
Rebecca Dangerfield, (Defra) – Clean Air Strategy 2018
Claire Holman (Brook Cottage Consultants) – The IAQM Committee’s View

Claire Holman (Brook Cottage Consultants) – 2017 IAQM AGM Chairs report
John Henderson (Environment Agency) – How the EA will implement the MCPD & Generator regulations?
Kieran Laxen (Air Quality Consultants) – Medium Combustion Plant – planning impacts, permitting risk

LINKS COMING SOON

Claire Holman (Brook Cottage Consultants ) – 2017 Air Quality Plan – Is it Good Enough?
Hazel Peace (Jacobs) – Greater Manchester’s Clean Air Zone
Polly Cook (Leeds City Council) – Delivery of DEFRA’s UK Air Quality Plan from a local perspective: Experience from Leeds

LINKS COMING SOON

Claire Holman (Brook Cottage Consultants)  – Introduction – The need for the guidance
Adrian Meurer (Hankison Duckett Associates) – What’s up in Wealden? WDC’s consideration of nitrogen deposition in the planning process and judicial outcomes
James Riley (AECOM) – Background on the guidance including how the authorship team came together
Sarah Horrocks, (ATKINS) – Overview of Chapters 2-4
Philip Davidson (Peter Brett Associates) – Overview of Chapters 5-6

Beth Conlan (Ricardo)  – A review of measures to improve air quality
Anna Font (King’s College London) –  Did Policies to abate atmospheric emissions from traffic have a positive effect in London
Gareth Simkins (the ENDS report) – The Draft Clean Air Zone Framework

Roger Barrowcliffe (Clear Air Thinking) – Draft Plans to Improve Air Quality: The IAQM’s View
Steve Moorcroft (Air Quality Consultants) – Defra’s draft plans to improve air quality
Alan Andrews (ClientEarth) – Defra’s draft action plans
Sarah Legge – Response to Defra’s National Plan Consultation
Ruth Calderwood (City of London) – Draft Air Quality Plans: a local government perspective
Ben Williams (UWE) – UWE’s response to the Defra Air Quality Plan Consultation
Nick Molden (Emissions Analytics) – Insights from Real World Emissions Testing in context of Defra Consultation
Helen ApSimon (Imperial College) – A few thoughts on the Defra Consultation

Claire Holman (Brook Cottage Consultants) – Introduction: Air Quality and Ecological Impact Assessment
James Riley (AECOM) – Ecological Assessment: Is there a need for guidance?
Ben Marner (Air Quality Consultants) – Quantification of the Air Quality Impacts
Alastair Burn (Natural England) – Natural England’s View
Kate Bayley (Environment Agency) – The Regulator’s View

LINKS COMING SOON

Joan Walley (Environmental Audit Committee (EAC) Chair & Labour Party MP)
Stephen Knight – (London Assembly Environment Committee Chair)
Neil Carmichael  (Conservative MP and EAC Committee Member)
Ruth Calderwood (City of London)

LINKS COMING SOON

Claire Holman (Brook Cottage Consultants) – Introduction
Chris Low (Environment Agency) – Waste Management and Air Quality
John Salmon (Land and Mineral Management) – Dust: The Mineral Operator’s Perspective
Alex Grant (Dustscan) – Assessing Dust Impacts of Minerals and Waste Sites: A Qualitative Assessment Technique
John Bruce (Dustscan) – Modelling Dust Emissions

LINKS COMING SOON

Michael Bull (Arup), John Pullen (RPS) – Introduction to the IAQM Guidance on Assessment of Odour for Planning
Prask Sutton (76msma) – Noise for the Nose: the prevalence of olfactory marketing and why smell doesn’t always equal sell
Victoria Henshaw (University of Sheffield) Fragrant Cities – Bridging the gap between Environmental Odour Practices and more positive roles for smell in city life

LINKS COMING SOON

Roger Barrowcliffe (Clear Air Thinking) – Introduction
John Baker (PBA) Last Gasp: air quality and the state of spatial planning
Richard Oakley (Quod) – Air Quality in the context of positive planning
Peter Ellis (DCLG) – DCLG’s new planning guidance (Q&A)
Celeste Giusti (GLA) – Air Quality and the London Plan: Improving air quality in urban areas using the planning system
Claire Holman (Brook Cottage) – Case study: Using the Habitats Directive to stop development
Andrew Whittles (Low Emission Strategies) – West Yorkshire Low Emission Strategy
Oliver Puddle (DustScan) – Planning consent for mineral works
Roger Barrowcliffe (Clear Air Thinking) – Case study: A proposal for a new EfW facility in an AQMA
Clare Beattie (AQ Consultants) – Mitigations for air quality in the planning system: experience and lessons learned –

LINKS COMING SOON

Alun McIntyre (Enviros) – Why, What and How? 
Jon Pullen (RPS) – Odour Management Plans
Michael Bull (Arup) – IAQM Odour Guidance

LINKS COMING SOON

Rob Mackenzie (Birmingham University) – Green infrastructure and urban air quality
Mark Job (Arup) – The benefits of large tree species in urban landscapes

Gary Fuller (Senior Lecturer in Air Pollution Measurement ,King’s College London) – Air pollution: past & present (a selected tour & some thoughts)
Claire Holman (Director, Brook Cottage Consultants) – PM 2.5 – meeting the WHO guidelines values
Paul S. Monks (Professor of Atmospheric Chemistry and Earth Observation Science, University of Leicester) – Are ultra-fine particles important?
Mark Barrett (Professor of Energy and Environmental Systems Modelling, University College London) – Will renewable electrification of energy solve air pollution? Not quite!

Dr Jeremy Wiltshire (Knowledge Leader, Agriculture and Environment, Ricardo) – Agricultural ammonia emission mitigation: principles and practices
Grace Whitlow (Environmental Advisor, NFU) – How will the farming sector reduce ammonia emissions?
Mella Waitt (Environment & Business Senior Advisor, the Environment Agency) – Ammonia – Facing the Challenges in Regulated Agriculture

Claire Holman (Brook Cottage Consultants) – Mitigation – Policy and case law 
Fiona Prismall (RPS Group) – Mitigation of development air quality impacts – The IAQM’S position 
Chris Whall (Air Quality Consultants) – Tangible Benefits of Mitigation?
Stephen Inch (GLA) – Mitigating operational impacts of developments

Andrew Baker (Baker Consultants) – Nitrogen deposition: An inconvenient truth for Habitats Regulations Assessments
Claire Holman (Brook Cottage Consultants) – Wealden District Council HRA for Ashdown Forest from an air quality (not ecology) perspective
Simon Bareham & Khalid Aazem (Natural Resources Wales) – Developing a ‘Natural Resources Management’ Approach to Air Quality in Wales to Protect Sensitive Habitats
Chris Field (Manchester Met University) – An application of dynamic modelling to produce site-specific critical load
Philip Davidson (WSP) – Air Quality and Ecology Assessment Document: An Update
Habitats Regulations Assessment Journal – Issue 11, Dec 2018

LINKS COMING SOON

Roger Barrowcliffe (Clear Air Thinking) – Is Indoor Air Quality our Future?
Vina Kukadia (BRE) – The impact of outdoor pollution on indoor air quality
Clive Shrubsole (Public Health England) – Indoor Air Quality and Public Health: Policy and Actions in the UK

LINKS COMING SOON 

Jim Longhurst (UWE) – Are We Serious About Managing Air Quality?
Rebecca Dangerfield, (Defra) – Clean Air Strategy 2018
Claire Holman (Brook Cottage Consultants) – The IAQM Committee’s View

Claire Holman (Brook Cottage Consultants) – 2017 IAQM AGM Chairs report
John Henderson (Environment Agency) – How the EA will implement the MCPD & Generator regulations?
Kieran Laxen (Air Quality Consultants) – Medium Combustion Plant – planning impacts, permitting risk

LINKS COMING SOON

Claire Holman (Brook Cottage Consultants ) – 2017 Air Quality Plan – Is it Good Enough?
Hazel Peace (Jacobs) – Greater Manchester’s Clean Air Zone
Polly Cook (Leeds City Council) – Delivery of DEFRA’s UK Air Quality Plan from a local perspective: Experience from Leeds

LINKS COMING SOON

Claire Holman (Brook Cottage Consultants)  – Introduction – The need for the guidance
Adrian Meurer (Hankison Duckett Associates) – What’s up in Wealden? WDC’s consideration of nitrogen deposition in the planning process and judicial outcomes
James Riley (AECOM) – Background on the guidance including how the authorship team came together
Sarah Horrocks, (ATKINS) – Overview of Chapters 2-4
Philip Davidson (Peter Brett Associates) – Overview of Chapters 5-6

Beth Conlan (Ricardo)  – A review of measures to improve air quality
Anna Font (King’s College London) –  Did Policies to abate atmospheric emissions from traffic have a positive effect in London
Gareth Simkins (the ENDS report) – The Draft Clean Air Zone Framework

Roger Barrowcliffe (Clear Air Thinking) – Draft Plans to Improve Air Quality: The IAQM’s View
Steve Moorcroft (Air Quality Consultants) – Defra’s draft plans to improve air quality
Alan Andrews (ClientEarth) – Defra’s draft action plans
Sarah Legge – Response to Defra’s National Plan Consultation
Ruth Calderwood (City of London) – Draft Air Quality Plans: a local government perspective
Ben Williams (UWE) – UWE’s response to the Defra Air Quality Plan Consultation
Nick Molden (Emissions Analytics) – Insights from Real World Emissions Testing in context of Defra Consultation
Helen ApSimon (Imperial College) – A few thoughts on the Defra Consultation

Claire Holman (Brook Cottage Consultants) – Introduction: Air Quality and Ecological Impact Assessment
James Riley (AECOM) – Ecological Assessment: Is there a need for guidance?
Ben Marner (Air Quality Consultants) – Quantification of the Air Quality Impacts
Alastair Burn (Natural England) – Natural England’s View
Kate Bayley (Environment Agency) – The Regulator’s View

LINKS COMING SOON

Joan Walley (Environmental Audit Committee (EAC) Chair & Labour Party MP)
Stephen Knight – (London Assembly Environment Committee Chair)
Neil Carmichael  (Conservative MP and EAC Committee Member)
Ruth Calderwood (City of London)

LINKS COMING SOON

Claire Holman (Brook Cottage Consultants) – Introduction
Chris Low (Environment Agency) – Waste Management and Air Quality
John Salmon (Land and Mineral Management) – Dust: The Mineral Operator’s Perspective
Alex Grant (Dustscan) – Assessing Dust Impacts of Minerals and Waste Sites: A Qualitative Assessment Technique
John Bruce (Dustscan) – Modelling Dust Emissions

LINKS COMING SOON

Michael Bull (Arup), John Pullen (RPS) – Introduction to the IAQM Guidance on Assessment of Odour for Planning
Prask Sutton (76msma) – Noise for the Nose: the prevalence of olfactory marketing and why smell doesn’t always equal sell
Victoria Henshaw (University of Sheffield) Fragrant Cities – Bridging the gap between Environmental Odour Practices and more positive roles for smell in city life

LINKS COMING SOON

Roger Barrowcliffe (Clear Air Thinking) – Introduction
John Baker (PBA) Last Gasp: air quality and the state of spatial planning
Richard Oakley (Quod) – Air Quality in the context of positive planning
Peter Ellis (DCLG) – DCLG’s new planning guidance (Q&A)
Celeste Giusti (GLA) – Air Quality and the London Plan: Improving air quality in urban areas using the planning system
Claire Holman (Brook Cottage) – Case study: Using the Habitats Directive to stop development
Andrew Whittles (Low Emission Strategies) – West Yorkshire Low Emission Strategy
Oliver Puddle (DustScan) – Planning consent for mineral works
Roger Barrowcliffe (Clear Air Thinking) – Case study: A proposal for a new EfW facility in an AQMA
Clare Beattie (AQ Consultants) – Mitigations for air quality in the planning system: experience and lessons learned –

LINKS COMING SOON

Alun McIntyre (Enviros) – Why, What and How? 
Jon Pullen (RPS) – Odour Management Plans
Michael Bull (Arup) – IAQM Odour Guidance

LINKS COMING SOON

Rob Mackenzie (Birmingham University) – Green infrastructure and urban air quality
Mark Job (Arup) – The benefits of large tree species in urban landscapes