Issue - meetings

ES20304

The Annual Status Report for 2022 with respect to Bromley's air quality, reported on the air quality monitoring results from the London Borough of Bromley's monitoring equipment, and was designed to demonstrate the progress made in delivering the actions against Bromley’s Air Quality Action Plan.

The Chairman drew attention to page 12 of the report where there was a table entitled ‘Annual Mean NO2 Ratified and Bias Adjusted Monitoring Results’. The table indicated that in four areas where diffusion tubes were located, there had been a slight increase in nitrogen dioxide levels. The Assistant Director for Public Protection commented that with respect to the measurements of air quality, trends were generally measured over three to five year periods. She said that the changes referenced by the Chairman were very small changes and all of the NO2 levels within the Borough were still under the UK Government’s recommended levels. It was noted that the diffusion tubes would measure NO2 levels, but would not measure PM2.5. In addition to the monitoring of nitrogen dioxide levels at the main Harwood Monitoring Centre, ‘Breathe’ was undertaking independent monitoring of NO2 levels which would be fed back into Bromley’s data.

RESOLVED that the content of the Annual Status Report for the year 2022 the noted.