Policy information sourced from the Kensington and Chelsea Local Plan
CE5 Air Quality
The Council will carefully control the impact of development on air quality, including the consideration of pollution from vehicles, construction and the heating and cooling of buildings. The Council will support measures to improve air quality and will require development to be carried out in a way that minimises the impact on air quality and mitigates exceedances of air pollutants.
To deliver this the Council will:
- require an air quality assessment for all major developments;
- require developments to be ‘air quality neutral’ and resist development proposals, which would materially increase exceedance levels of local air pollutants and have an unacceptable impact on amenity or health, unless the development mitigates this impact through physical measures, or financial contributions to implement proposals in the Council’s Local Air Quality and Climate Change Action Plan;
- resist biomass combustion and combined heat and power technologies/CCHP, which may lead to an increase in emissions, and seek to use greater energy efficiency and non combustion renewable technologies to make carbon savings, unless its use will not have a detrimental impact on air quality;
- require that emissions of particles and NOx are controlled during demolition and construction, and risk assessments are carried out to identify potential impacts and corresponding mitigation measures, including on site monitoring, if required by the Council.
For more information please see the Kensington and Chelsea Local Plan