Six employees of
Air Quality Consultants ran the 10 km road race on 15 May 2011, which had over 11,000 runners compete. The team entered into the Clarke Willmott Business Challenge, with everyone completing the 10,000 meters. Spirits were high after the run in a collective time of 3hrs 53mins 45secs. The team hope to enter again next year to improve on their times.
From left to right: Duncan Laxen (01:07:40), Penny Wilson (01:09:17), Clare Beattie (00:59:00), Mella O’Driscoll (00:54:51), Kiri Brown (00:54:08 min), Kieran Laxen (00:48:56).
Clare Beattie, in conjunction with UWE, ran a successful workshop for the Welsh Assembly Government on 16th May 2011 on Appraising Air Quality Assessments for Planning Applications. Approximately 30 delegates from local authorities all over Wales, as well as officers from the Welsh Assembly Government, undertook training on the EPUK Guidance on Air Quality and Planning, including a workshop session appraising an example air quality assessment. Positive feedback was received at the end of the day, and delegates earned Continuing Professional Development hours. If any other local authority groups are interested in setting up training sessions on planning or any other air quality issues, don’t hesitate to contact Clare.
Air Quality Consultants has recently completed a review of the London automatic air quality monitoring network. It was prepared on behalf of the Greater London Authority and is a response to one of the Proposals in the Mayor’s Air Quality Strategy2010. This committed the Mayor to supporting the improvement of air quality monitoring across London, so as to provide accurate and up-to-date information about air quality trends and current conditions in London.
The review identifies the current and future roles of the network, as well as those sites which provide the most valuable data. It also identifies those parts of London where additional monitoring would be beneficial.
Simon Cousins, the GLA's Strategy Lead for Air Quality, said that "AQC produced the report on London's monitoring network on time, to budget and to a high standard. It will provide a useful tool in discussions with stakeholders on improving the capital's monitoring network as part of our work to drive down pollution”.
The full report is available for download from the GLA website
here.