News - Air Quality Assessments

Aether has recently expanded its Land Development services and secured six new commissions with one of the UK’s top 14 house builders. These projects span from comprehensive Environmental Impact Assessments for large-scale residential developments to focused sustainability, energy, and air quality reports for smaller schemes.

Aether has strengthened its Land Development services with the appointment of Michael Dray as Principal Sustainability Advisor. Michael brings over a decade of experience in sustainability across the built environment, with specialist expertise in low-carbon infrastructure, life-cycle carbon assessment, and Passivhaus consultancy.

Communicating harm from greenhouse gas emissions is critical to the debate needed for decisions on major development and infrastructure projects. The 20th June 2024 Supreme Court of Justice decision creates a clean slate to move forward on the need for better evidence on the significance of environmental harm caused by greenhouse gas pollution.

Aether's air quality team has been providing consultancy services across the UK. Recent projects include EIAs for residential and mixed-use developments in Somerset, ensuring compliance with air quality objectives through dispersion modelling, and advising on ventilation strategies for a redevelopment project in Westminster.

Over the last months, the air quality assessment team have been working on many detailed assessments for housing schemes and industrial sites as well as dust risk assessments, air quality neutral and positive statements for developers.

Aether's air quality assessment work continues to grow.

In 2020, Aether’s Melanie Hobson provided expert witness work on behalf of Weston Homes work for the public inquiry into the application for planning permission for the proposed Anglia Square development in Norwich.

An update on Aether's work on Air Quality Assessments in 2020

Aether was commissioned to undertake an air quality assessment and air quality neutral assessment for a proposed mixed residential, commercial and hotel development in Camberwell in London.

Aether was recently commissioned to conduct an air quality assessment for the proposed development at the former Abbey Road Retail Park in Barking.

Aether recently submitted a Dust Risk Assessment for a proposed development at Banbury Road, Oxford

Aether was commissioned to conduct an air quality assessment for the proposed redevelopment of an existing office block to student accommodation.