Air management

A south London council has approved a housing development where residents will be told not to open their windows due to high air pollution

Environmental requirements for ferrous metal industries are set to be tightened, following the publication of draft EU pollution control guidance

Central London’s Ultra Low Emission Zone (CCZ) entered force at midnight, setting the toughest standard for any urban air quality scheme in the world

Concerns that the protected Ashdown Forest would be damaged by air pollution from new development in and around it have been assuaged by new advice from Natural England

High levels of particulate matter, ozone and nitrogen dioxide are responsible for tens of thousands of premature deaths each year in the UK, the European Commission has warned in a review of national environmental policy

Reversing a council’s refusal of permission to build ten homes in a horse paddock could have national implications for habitat protection, finds Gareth Simkins

The environmental impact assessment regime changed almost two years ago to include human health in a social context, competency checks and major disasters. James Agyepong-Parsons speaks to the experts about how it has affected their practice

Though frustrated by its vagueness, consultants think that the government’s overarching plan to cut air pollution should drum up more business. Gareth Simkins reports

Some imaginative but potentially impractical policy ideas have been dropped from DEFRA’s finalised Clean Air Strategy, finds Gareth Simkins

Conor McGlone asks how much progress the government has made in the year since its ambitious 25-year environment plan was published