The Scoping Report sets out a justification for scoping air quality out of the EIA on the basis that a standalone air quality assessment will be undertaken in accordance with GLA and IAQM guidance. A qualitative construction dust risk assessment will be undertaken.
As the development will be a car-free development, the Scoping Report proposes to scope out operational air quality effects from the Environmental Impact Assessment.
Whilst there is not much detail with regards to the energy strategy at this stage, there is a commitment to avoid combustion as a source of energy. It is unclear whether there will be a need for emergency plant as a source of combustion as part of the proposed development.
No concern with scoping out air quality from the Environmental Impact Assessment has been raised by the LBBD’s environmental health department. They have requested suitable planning conditions to ensure air quality effects are understood. On the basis that the development will be car-free, renewable energy (or non-combustion) sources of energy supply will be part of the proposed development, it is considered that air quality can be scoped out of the Environmental Impact Assessment.

Air Quality will not have to be measured in the Environmental Impact Assessment as this potential development of 2,100 flats will be car free. Developers and planners seem to keep following this narrative that if no car parking is provided then no air pollution would be created because apparently none of these new residents here are ever going to own cars or other vehicles.