Object

Representation ID: 25658

Received: 11/03/2019

Respondent: Northern Fringe Protection Group

There is no Air Quality Assessment provided as part of this consultation. This needs to be completed urgently and needs to include assessments for the early years of planned developments, all construction-related traffic (including sewage infrastructure projects) and rail traffic.

Object

Representation ID: 25681

Received: 11/03/2019

Respondent: Northern Fringe Protection Group

IBC is not doing enough to tackle the issue of air quality and must do more. Objective 11 of the current Local Plan should not be removed. The additional congestion from traffic modelling will worsen air quality and this is illegal and therefore would render the CS unsound.

The CS needs to comply with paragraph 181 of the NPPF and make a clear commitment to improving air quality in Ipswich and the compliance with legally binding air pollution targets.

Concerns and questions raised in relation to the Air Quality Topic Paper, AQMA and rail assessment.

Object

Representation ID: 25758

Received: 12/03/2019

Respondent: Natural England

expect the plan to address the impacts of air quality on the natural environment. It should address the traffic impacts associated with new development, particularly where this impacts on European sites and SSSIs.

One of the main issues which should be considered in the plan and the SA/HRA are proposals which are likely to generate additional nitrogen emissions as a result of increased traffic generation, which can be damaging to the natural environment.

Object

Representation ID: 25759

Received: 12/03/2019

Respondent: Natural England

The effects on local roads in the vicinity of any proposed development on nearby designated nature conservation sites, and the impacts on vulnerable sites from air quality effects on the wider road network should be assessed using traffic projections and the 200m distance criterion followed by local Air Quality modelling where required. The designated sites at risk from local impacts are those within 200m of a road with increased traffic, which feature habitats that are vulnerable to nitrogen deposition/acidification.

Object

Representation ID: 25857

Received: 12/03/2019

Respondent: Ravenswood Environmental Group

The air quality policy would prevent development at Ravenswood because existing peak hour traffic is so great that this would be an Air Quality Management Area had the Borough Council conducted appropriate monitoring at the Nacton Road roundabout. The development at Ravenswood on all of the 6 development sites adds intolerably to air quality concerns without a solution in the Local Plan.

Object

Representation ID: 25864

Received: 13/03/2019

Respondent: Save Our Country Spaces

This plan fails both soundness and legal compliance specifically on environmental health impacts from likely congestion and attendant air quality impacts and pollution.

Air pollution deaths are double previous estimates finds research. Ipswich is failing to address air pollution and it's AQAP is inadequate. The SCDC proposals will exacerbate this critical problem. Dust and noise impacts are inadequately assessed and not subject to robust health impact assessments required by NICE etc.

IBC are playing "fast and loose" on public consultation on their draft AQAP. The AQAP is not fit for purpose and is unlawful. Concerned over lack of monitoring.

Object

Representation ID: 25873

Received: 13/03/2019

Respondent: Save Our Country Spaces

This plan fails both soundness and legal compliance specifically on environmental health impacts from likely congestion and attendant air quality impacts and pollution.

Air pollution deaths are double previous estimates finds research. Ipswich is failing to address air pollution and it's AQAP is inadequate. The SCDC proposals will exacerbate this critical problem. Dust and noise impacts are inadequately assessed and not subject to robust health impact assessments required by NICE etc.

IBC are playing "fast and loose" on public consultation on their draft AQAP. The AQAP is not fit for purpose and is unlawful. Concerned over lack of monitoring.

Object

Representation ID: 26018

Received: 13/03/2019

Respondent: Suffolk County Council

The County recognises that it has a role to play in managing poor air quality in Ipswich. In order to more effectively consider the relationship between vehicular movements arising from development and air quality, it may be appropriate to align the thresholds for Air Quality Assessment with the thresholds for Transport Assessment; i.e. 80 dwellings; or provide the rationale for the figure.

Maximising opportunities for healthy and sustainable travel will be fundamental for managing air quality issues in Ipswich. The Council could helpfully refer to specialist housing, e.g. care homes, as being a sensitive receptor (as noted in the policy).

Support

Representation ID: 26036

Received: 13/03/2019

Respondent: Sproughton Parish Council

The new Air Quality Policy which aims to provide a "safer, greener, more cohesive town" aiming to reduce carbon emissions by providing better public transport, encouraging working at home, reducing the need to travel by car etc. would be implemented in this new Local Plan. The Council likes the sound of this policy and hopes that it is seen through the consultation period to help ease congestion and pollution in our village which is directly affected by the traffic coming in and out of Ipswich on a daily basis; it is hoped that Babergh also follow suit with this policy

Object

Representation ID: 26142

Received: 11/03/2019

Respondent: Northern Fringe Protection Group

IBC is already in breach of guidelines and requirements when assessing the impacts of development on air quality and needs to alter its practices to comply with the Core Strategy.

Object

Representation ID: 26145

Received: 13/03/2019

Respondent: Clean Air Ipswich

Have the environmental costs of air quality come from the EU directive? If not, what evidence used?