Detailed Assessment 2009

Executive Summary

Part IV of the Environment Act 1995 places a statutory duty on local authorities to review and assess the air quality within their area and take account of Government guidance when undertaking such work.

Thanet District Council’s fourth round Updating and Screening Assessment Report 2009 concluded that there was a significant increase in exceedences of the 24-hour average PM₁₀ objective at the Thanet Ramsgate monitoring site on Boundary Road. It was therefore recommended that a Detailed Assessment of the Boundary Road area be undertaken. The area of assessment includes the junction of Boundary Road with Hereson Road/Victoria Road/King Street and therefore the following roads have been assessed:

• A255 Boundary Road, Ramsgate;
  
  
• A255 Hereson Road, Ramsgate;
  
  
• B2054 Victoria Road, Ramsgate
  
  
• King Street, Ramsgate.

Bureau Veritas has been commissioned by Thanet District Council to provide a Detailed Assessment for PM₁₀ at the above locations.

The Detailed Assessment has been undertaken in accordance with DEFRA LAQM.TG (09) Guidance methodologies. The Detailed Assessment aims, through assessment of monitoring data and dispersion model predictions, to assess these areas and determine whether the prescribed objectives are being met. Where exceedences are predicted to occur, the Detailed Assessment aims to define the area of exceedence to assist the Council in respect of subsequent Air Quality Management Area declaration.

The findings of the Detailed Assessment are the following:

• Exceedences of the 24-hour mean PM₁₀ objective were predicted in the assessment area along Hereson Road. It is therefore recommended that the Council consider declaring this area as an Air Quality Management Area.

• Executive Summary
• Introduction
• Baseline Information
• Dispersion Modelling Methodology
• Results
• Conclusions and Recommendations
• Appendix 1 - Traffic Data
• Appendix 2 - Traffic Growth Factors
• Appendix 3 - Model Verification
• Appendix 4 - Modelled Specific Receptor Results

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