Air Management Air Quality Consultation (AQMA)

Following the installation of a new highways pollution monitoring station in a Kentish town, Senior Environmental Health Officers had a business requirement to engage and consult the immediate local resident population about traffic and pollution related issues in a designated affected AQMA area to measure the post impact of installations. The main objectives of this consultation were to inform, improve levels of awareness and enable residents an opportunity to provide their opinion, and ideas to improve to air quality. Multi-mode research was commissioned with exhibitions, focus groups and online/paper questionnaire distributed amongst 3,000 residents’ living in the designated AQMA area.