Air Quality Management Areas (AQMA) - what are they?

In This Tutorial:

We will briefly discuss what an Air Quality Management Area (AQMA) is and how it will impact planning, construction and operational phases of prospective projects.

Summary:

This tutorial briefly outlines AQMA's and how they are likely to impact your projects; you can read our blog on the subject under Education, Blogs at the bottom of the public site.

Accessing AQMA's in Data Studio

Step 1: click on Data Studio

1. Select Environmental Layers panel within the LHS toolbar;

2. Select Air Quality Management Area to render the areas onto the map.

Step 2: Adding AQMA as a Constraint within SiteSeeker

1. Select a town or city and zoom-in to a visible local area (zoom level z=15 in your URL bar);

2. Select "add a constraint" within SiteSeeker before selecting "click to make a selection";

3. Select Air Quality Management Area from the dropdown before selecting "applies" or "does not apply" and then click the green tick;

4. Click "deploy SiteSeeker".

Why Consider AQMA's?

Where AQMA's apply they will add additional requirements to your planning costs in terms of consultant reports and how both construction is to be management and by what processes and, also, the infrastructure that will need to be incorporated into the design of the project for the operational phase - their use.

This will add to budgets and may detract from the attractiveness of a project to the market if you intend to sell the consented scheme to others.