Policy information sourced from the Tower Hamlets Local Plan
D.ES2 Air quality
Development is required to meet or exceed the ‘air quality neutral’ standard, including promoting the use of low or zero emission transport and reducing the reliance on private motor vehicles.
An air quality impact assessment, based on current best practice, is required as part of the planning application for:
- Major developments
- Developments which will require substantial earthworks or demolition
- Developments which include education and health facilities or open space (including child play space), and
- New build developments in areas of sub-standard air quality (as designated and shown on the Policies Map).
Where an air quality assessment indicates that a development will cause harm to air quality or where end users could be exposed to poor air quality, development will be resisted unless mitigation measures are adopted to reduce the impact to acceptable levels.
New build developments which propose to provide any private, communal, publicly accessible open space or child play space in areas of sub-standard air quality are required to demonstrate that they have considered the positioning and design of the open space to reduce exposure of future users to air pollution.
For more information please see the Local Plan