Poor air quality can affect your health, especially if you have breathing difficulties or suffer with heart trouble. If you would like to know more about how air pollution might affect your health and how you can help to reduce air pollution, follow the link to the Defra: Air Pollution leaflet.
Air Quality
Review & Assessment Reports
By law the city council must monitor and
report on
air quality
and take
action to
improve it.
We monitor
air quality
all around
the city,
especially in
areas where
higher pollution
levels are
expected. We have
written reports
to tell
you:
- What the air quality is like in Stoke-on-Trent
- What and where air pollution is monitored
- How we review and assess the state of air quality
- Where air pollution comes from
For our latest Air Quality Review & Assessment report, go to our Air Qualty Review & Assessment page.
Air Quality Management Areas (AQMA)
If we find that any of the pollutants that we monitor exceeds
objectives set by national government, we must declare an Air Quality
Management Area and prepare an Air Quality Action Plan which aims to reduce the pollution below the guidance level.
Consultation
The city
council and
its partners
have consulted
with organisations
and agencies,
and most
importantly the
general public,
to help
agree what
should be included in the action plans, to improve the air quality
in Stoke-on-Trent.