Air Quality Assessments in Nottingham

Development in Nottingham

Nottingham and Nottinghamshire are experiencing a significant phase of economic revitalisation, presenting numerous major investment opportunities of national importance across the city and county. The city centre alone boasts £2 billion in potential investments, with £650 million in ongoing construction projects.

Nottingham is home to two of the largest and most significant city centre projects anywhere in the UK – Broad Marsh and The Island Quarter.

The vision for Broad Marsh will provide Nottingham with unparalleled social and economic opportunities, promising to create over 6,000 jobs, up to 1,000 new homes and over 500,000 square feet of commercial and office space.

The Island Quarter, a 36-acre site, is undergoing a complete transformation to introduce new homes, grade A office space, creative areas, a lifestyle hotel, PRS apartments, co-working spaces, retail units, a ‘linear’ park, and dynamic community and events spaces, along with student accommodation to the city.

In addition to Broad Marsh and The Island Quarter, key sites include the Nottingham Waterside development; the University of Nottingham’s new Castle Meadow campus and Unity Square phase two alongside phase one, the new HMRC office.

Air Quality Assessments in Nottingham are a crucial part of the development process to enable a sustainable and clean air future for local residents.

Air Quality in Nottingham

In the Nottingham City and Nottinghamshire County areas, thousands of cases of respiratory and other diseases, along with an estimated 630 annual deaths, are attributed to air pollutants. Long-term trends indicate improvement, especially following the COVID-19 pandemic, though several locations across the city and surrounding borough still exceed the UK Air Quality Objectives.

Nottingham aims to further reduce pollutant concentrations in the coming years. Their strategy focuses on reducing two key pollutants known to impact human health: nitrogen dioxide and fine particulate matter. This action will also mitigate the effects of these pollutants on the local environment and ecosystems, as well as reduce the impact of other pollutants emitted and produced by the same source.

It is crucial that developments continue to support an improvement in air quality. This should be managed through sound determination and effective mitigation of air quality impacts associated with proposals. This is why Air Quality Assessments in Nottingham are needed.

The image above shows the plume of the Eastcoft Incinerator as viewed from Nottingham Castle. Taken by Arran Bee under very calm meteorological conditions. The height of the stack ensures emission dispersion and avoids significant contributions to ground level pollution concentrations.

Air Quality Assessments for Planning

Air Quality Assessments in Nottingham are now required in support of nearly all planning applications for new developments. Typically, these comprise assessment of three main elements. These are:

• Potential exposure of future occupiers to harmful pollution levels
• The impact of emissions from vehicles travelling to and from the scheme
• The impact of dust emissions generated during construction

Addressing these as part of your application could be the deciding factor for its success or refusal.

Air Quality Assessments in Nottingham

Redmore Environmental’s 20 years of experience conducting Air Quality Assessments across the UK could enhance the success of your planning application. You will receive guidance on planning applications, discharging conditions, and addressing consultation responses and public comments. We have completed Air Quality Assessments in Nottingham for residential, educational, industrial, and commercial projects. Last year alone, we conducted over 500 assessments in support of developments like yours.

Across Nottingham and Nottinghamshire, we have been involved in a number of exciting projects in recent years. These include:

• Aldi, Edwalton, Nottingham – Construction of an Aldi food store with an associated 141 space car park and a care home to provide circa 140 residential units on land to the south of Nottingham. The newly opened supermarket will benefit the local economy through the creation of 45 new jobs for the area.
• Colwick Industrial Estate, Nottingham – Installation of a new gas upgrading unit and grid entry facility. This facility is used to produce biomethane from biogas generated by the adjacent Biodynamic UK Limited anaerobic digestion plant for injection into the national transmission network.
• Huntingdon Street, Nottingham – Demolition of the existing buildings and erection of five student accommodation blocks. The scheme was an essential step to tackling the student housing crisis.

Air Quality Assessment Services

Our air quality experts specialise in all aspects of air quality consultancy. Those relating to planning include:

• Air Quality Assessments in support of planning applications.
• Air Quality Assessments in support of Environmental Permit applications.
• Environmental Impact Assessments.
• Dispersion Modelling Assessments.
• Odour Assessments.
• Construction Dust Risk Assessments and Management Plans.
• Low Emissions Strategies.

Additional Services

We also have expertise in the following areas:

• Bioaerosol Risk Assessments.
• Ambient Air Quality Monitoring.
• BREEAM Indoor Air Quality Assessments.
• Indoor air quality testing.
• Kitchen Odour Assessments.
• Ecological and Ammonia Assessments.
• Local Air Quality Management reports.
• Air Quality Constraints and Screening Opinions.
• Dust and Odour Management Plans.
• Expert Witness.

Get in Touch

If you are concerned about air quality or require an Air Quality Assessment in Nottingham undertaking to support a planning application for your development, then please get in touch today to discuss how we can help you ensure permission is granted.