Consumer and Environmental Services
Environmental Health
Air Quality
The National Air Quality Strategy outlines a national framework for reducing hazards to health from air pollution in the UK. It requires local authorities to review and assess local air quality against a set of standards and objectives for the control and reduction of the seven main health threatening pollutants – benzene, 1.3 butadiene, carbon monoxide, lead, nitrogen dioxide, particulate matter (PM10) and sulphur dioxide.
The Comhairle has to submit periodic reports on the various stages of the review process to the Scottish Government.
The reports to date are detailed below:
- CNES Local Air Quality Update And Screening Assessment Report 2009 (185K PDF)
- Local Air Quality Managagement Progress Report 2007 (Prepared by BMT Cordah Ltd) (1.6Mb PDF)
- Local Air Quality Managagement Updating and Screening Assessment Report 2006 (Prepared by BMT Cordah Ltd) (2 Mb PDF)
- Local Air Quality Managagement Progress Report 2005 (350Kb PDF)
- Local Air Quality Managagement Updating and Screening Assessment Report 2003 (830Kb PDF)
Further information is available from the following websites:
- www.scottishairquality.co.uk
- www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Environment/Pollution/16215/4561
- www.airquality.co.uk
