Climate Change and Air Quality Progress Report 2022 to 2023
Progress against targets: Objective D
Progress against Objective D:
Reduce human exposure to harmful levels of air pollution.
As there has been a consistent reduction in recorded levels of nitrogen dioxide (NO2) at most monitoring locations for the last five years (2018 - 2022) (see graphs 2-7) and annual mean NO2 concentrations at most recorded locations are below the National Air Quality Objective (the exception being a new monitoring location for 2022 within the Friarage Road AQMA in Aylesbury) human health will generally benefit.
The council’s Strategic Environmental Protection Team continues to provide comments on planning applications regarding the air quality impacts of proposed developments with the aim of mitigating human exposure to harmful levels of air pollution.