Dr Jessica Muirhead joins Air Quality Consultants as an Associate Director; with over 18 years industry experience in air quality consultancy, with her expertise in air quality assessments for UK urban regeneration and renewable energy projects.
Dr Jessica Muirhead is an Associate Director with AQC with over 18 years experience in Air Quality consultancy. Prior to joining AQC in 2024, she spent eleven years at AECOM leading the Air Quality Team’s Urban Regeneration and Solar Farm work streams. She has been responsible for delivering numerous air quality assessments for planning applications and Development Consent Orders (DCOs) including Environmental Impact Assessments (EIAs) across London and the UK. She spent a year as Technical Advisor to the Greater London Authority delivering training workshops to the London Boroughs, reviewing referrable planning applications and responding to queries on air quality positive and air quality neutral. Jess also has extensive experience providing technical peer reviews for a number of Planning Authorities in the UK, and for The Royal Commission for Al Ula in Saudi Arabia. In joining AQC, Jess will provide further expertise in major developments within Greater London as well as DCO renewable energy applications.
Able to meet very tight deadlines and a pleasure to work with.
Planning Potential
Air Quality Consultants and its sister company Noise Consultants have written, and assisted in consultation events for, an SPD for Runnymede Borough Council on Environmental Protection which covers air quality and noise.
Expert advice and dispersion modelling of impacts of industrial facility on designated conservation sites.
Permitting support for a variation to introduce screening of incinerator bottom ash (IBA) at an existing Energy from Waste facility.
Technical input for the outline planning application for the Intergenerational Continuing Care Retirement Community (CCRC), including up to 1,300 homes and purpose-built care, health, wellbeing and lifestyle facilities adaptable to meet peoples’ changing needs.
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