Policy information sourced from Royal Greenwich Local Plan Core Strategy

E(c) Air Pollution

Development proposals with the potential to result in any significant impact on air quality will be resisted unless measures to minimise the impact of air pollutants are included. Such planning applications should be accompanied by an assessment of the likely impact of the development on air quality.

All new developments with a floor space greater than 500sqm or residential developments of 10 or more units are required to reduce carbon dioxide (CO2), particulate matter (PM10) and nitrogen dioxide (NO2) emissions from transport through the use of measures such as those set out in DEFRA guidance ‘Low Emissions Strategies: using the planning system to reduce transport emissions Good Practice Guidance -January 2010’.

Residential development proposals within areas that are currently exposed to air quality concentrations above the National Air Quality Strategy (NAQS) Objectives for particulate matter (PM10) and nitrogen dioxide (NO2 ) should take into account the need to reduce exposure by the following design mitigation hierarchy: