Air Quality

Poor air quality affects your health, especially if you have breathing difficulties or suffer with heart trouble.

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 now written our latest report which shows there are several areas of the city where high levels of nitrogen dioxide have been recorded.

In April 2006 the city council declared the whole city an air quality management area. We are now working with local authority partners, such as the Highways Agency on an action plan to reduce pollution below the guidance levels.

Consultation
This is very important. The city council and its partners have consulted with organisations and agencies, and most importantly the general public, to help agree an action plan to improve the air quality in Stoke-on-Trent.

Air Quality Reports
We have written air quality monitoring reports to tell you:  

• What the air quality is like in Stoke-on-Trent
• What and where air pollution is monitored
• How the City Council reviews and assesses the state of air quality
• Where air pollution comes from 

You can follow the links to the left of the page to find out more, or you can follow this link to contact us for more information.

Live air quality information

You can check out live air quality readings for the city by visiting the link on this page.