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National Air Quality Strategy

Summary

Information regarding the National Air Quality Scheme. Clean air is an essential ingredient of a good quality life.

Clean air is an essential ingredient of a good quality life. People have a right to expect that the air they breathe will not harm them.

We have come a long way since the smogs of the 1950s and air quality in the UK is generally very good. However, air pollution remains a serious problem in certain areas. Up to 24,000 people die prematurely every year in Britain because of its effects. Many thousands more require hospital treatment. Children and the elderly are particularly vulnerable because of the fragile nature of their lungs.

Some people believe that this is a problem we have solved. It is true that the great pea-souper smogs of the 1950s, which were caused by coal and wood fires in people’s homes and coal-burning power stations, and which led to the deaths of thousands of people in London, are a thing of the past. But a new type of smog has replaced them, in some ways more dangerous because less visible. This is the smog caused by traffic fumes.

The Government’s national air quality strategy web page sets objectives for the main air pollutants to protect health and was published in July 2007.

External links ...

Department for the Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
Department for the Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
Defra works to control and manage air quality across the UK, setting out a way forward for work and planning on air quality issues and setting the air quality standards and objectives to be achieved.
Air quality strategy web page.
Air quality web page.
UK National Air Quality Archive
Find out what the air quality is currenltly like in your area, or find out about air quality from in the UK from the present back to 1960.
UK National Air Quality Information Archive

About links to external sites.

Contact us ...

Team:
Environmental Protection
Telephone:
01473 825890
Minicom/textphone:
01473 825878
Fax:
01473 825738
Address:
Babergh District Council
Corks Lane
Hadleigh
IPSWICH
IP7 6SJ

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Last updated on: 13 October 2009 | Date of next review: 13 October 2010

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