Updates
Position Statement: Mitigation of Development Air Quality Impacts
The IAQM issues Position Statements on: external matters that could affect the way in which Members carry out their professional tasks; or air quality topics and issues where the IAQM believes its collective specialist knowledge gives it a unique perspective from which to give a professional opinion.
Members are able to predict the pollution concentrations from/at ...
Local authority AQMA designation
Since 1997 all local authorities have been carrying out reviews and assessments of air quality. If this monitoring highlights areas where the national air quality objectives are unlikely to be met, under the Environment Act 1995 they are required to designate an Air Quality Management Area (AQMA). These areas can range in size from one ...
Consultation open on new EPUK & IAQM guidance document on Land-Use Planning and Development Control
IAQM members are invited to contribute to a consultation on a new EPUK and IAQM guidance document, Land-Use Planning and Development Control: Planning for Air Quality.
Please see the following letter from Working Group co-chairs Stephen Moorcroft and Roger Barrowcliffe, inviting members to comment on the consultation document.
The consultation document can be downloaded here:
EPUK & IAQM Dec 2014 Consultation ...
In memory of Dr Gary Mahoney
All at the IAQM have been greatly saddened to learn of the death of Dr Gary Mahoney, a highly respected member of our Institute, who passed away suddenly on Monday 10th November 2014, aged 56.
Gary joined Sefton Council in 1986 and spent most of his working life in the areas of Pollution Control and Local Air ...
IAQM responds to EAC ‘Action on Air Quality’ report
This morning the House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee has published the report of its recent inquiry into UK air quality. The report, entitled 'Action on Air Quality', is the result of the third EAC inquiry on air quality in five years, to which the Institute of Air Quality Management and Institution of Environmental Sciences ...
Relive DMUG 2014
An overview of this year's dispersion user group meeting which features tweets, photos and slides from the talks on the day.
[View the story "DMUG 2014" on Storify]