Draft Air Quality Delivery Plan (2024 - 2029)

Have your say on Croydon’s Air Quality Delivery Plan (2024 – 2029)

Croydon Council has launched a 10 week consultation on its draft Air Quality Delivery Plan (AQDP) setting out the council’s approach to working with partners and the community to improve air quality and reduce residents’ exposure to air pollution.

The council's priorities for the draft Air Quality Delivery Plan 2024–2029 are:

1. Work towards the 2005 WHO guidelines for PM_2.5 (small particles of dust) with a target of compliance deadline by 2030 and review the emerging policies from the GLA in respect of the 2021 WHO guidelines;

2. Increase the network of air quality monitoring across the borough;

3. Continue to engage schools around whether there is a need to introduce further Croydon Healthy School Streets (this can include traffic calming measures, Air Quality audits and increase of green infrastructure). This is whilst recognising that such matters also have attendant statutory consultation requirements and procedures which would need to be adhered to and substantiated, including on Traffic Management grounds, prior to any introduction.

4. NRMM (Non-Road Mobile Machinery), particularly from the construction sector, is a significant contributor to London’s air pollution accounting for around seven per cent of NOx and eight per cent of PM10 emissions in London. It is a statutory requirement to undertake regular inspections to ensure compliance - major developments are required to submit a construction logistics plan (CLP) or Construction Environmental management plan (CEMP) prior to commencement;

5. Continue to raise awareness and encourage behaviour changes through air quality campaigns;

6. Assess potential impact of intensifying Electric Vehicle Infrastructure;

7. Reduce emissions from the burning of non seasoned wood – reduce particulate emissions from wood burning in the home via an awareness campaign.

8. Provide new cycling and walking infrastructure and assess air quality impacts of new infrastructure.

Survey closes 11:59pm Monday 7th October 2024.

Privacy statement:

Personal data submitted (including any equalities data) will be processed in accordance with the requirements of the UK General Data Protection Regulations. Data will only be used for the purposes of the consultation. Details will not be shared or published. By participating, you agree to your data being used in this way. For the purposes of this survey, we are asking for some equalities questions.

For further information on how we use, share and protect your personal data in compliance with our legal requirements under the GDPR 2018 and Data Protection Act 2018, please refer to the council’s corporate privacy notice:

Croydon Council's Privacy Statement: https://www.croydon.gov.uk/council-and-elections/privacy-and-open-data/privacy-notices/corporate-privacy-notice