'Is Local Air Quality Management a Successful Strategy in Achieving Selected EU Limit Values'
For the past 15 years, local air quality management in the UK has relied on the implementation of air quality action plans to allow local authorities to work towards remediating breaches of the national air quality objectives, primarily due to road traffic. Failure of national policies to sufficiently reduce road traffic emissions has added to the importance of local air quality action plans to help the UK government to meet EU limit values for NO2 and PM10. Local authorities are required to report measured pollutant concentrations and progress on their action plans annually, but, to date, there have been no studies published to determine whether, locally or collectively, action plans are effectively implemented and what, if any, effect they are having on air quality. This paper provides a synoptic and time-series approach to assess the effectiveness of local air quality action planning using local authority case studies to demonstrate.
