Resources
Discussion meetings
Discussion meetings are free events where the opinions and debate also flows freely.
This page also includes one-off day conferences, such as Planning for Better Air Quality.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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)
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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
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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
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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 –
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Alun McIntyre (Enviros) – Why, What and How?
Jon Pullen (RPS) – Odour Management Plans
Michael Bull (Arup) – IAQM Odour Guidance
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Rob Mackenzie (Birmingham University) – Green infrastructure and urban air quality
Mark Job (Arup) – The benefits of large tree species in urban landscapes