Fast, planning-grade air quality and dust risk assessments and management plans to secure approval and protect construction delivery.
Dust and air quality conditions can significantly affect construction methodology, programme and cost if they are not handled properly at planning stage.
Our dust risk assessments are prepared with a clear understanding of how environmental health officers and air quality teams review dust submissions and apply conditions.
We focus on delivering clear, proportionate assessments that identify real dust risk, define sensible control measures, avoid unnecessary monitoring, and provide construction teams with practical, workable management plans.
Where risk is low, we say so. Where risk exists, we define controls that are technically robust but commercially realistic.
Our approach reduces planning friction, avoids over-conditioning and protects construction delivery.
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Assessments are undertaken in general accordance with IAQM guidance and local authority expectations.
Mitigation is scaled to site risk, location and construction activity, not via generic templates.
Dust Management Plans are written to be usable on site, not just acceptable on paper.
Controls are aligned with demolition, earthworks, logistics and phasing proposals.
An Air Quality Dust Risk Assessment (AQDRA) evaluates the potential for dust and particulate emissions during demolition, earthworks, and construction.
Following the latest IAQM guidance, we evaluate the risk to nearby sensitive receptors, including residential areas, schools, and ecological habitats, to ensure your project remains compliant and community-friendly.
Our assessments provide a definitive roadmap for your site by establishing:
The outcome is a clear dust risk classification and a proportionate Dust Management Plan (DMP) that can be conditioned, approved and implemented.
While every scope is proportionate to the project’s scale and environmental sensitivity, our assessments provide a robust technical basis for planning approval.
Dust assessments typically sit early in the planning and construction process.
Preparation of formal Air Quality Dust Risk Assessments (AQDRA) required to support your application, ensuring Environmental Health Officers have the technical data needed to recommend approval.
Developing detailed, site-specific Dust Management Plans (DMP) to satisfy pre-commencement conditions. This is the critical step that allows you to legally “break ground” and start the programme.
We work with your site team to ensure dust controls, like track-out management and damping down, are integrated into your demolition and earthworks strategy without hindering productivity.
Ongoing technical support and advocacy to help your team implement controls on-site and provide the clarification and technical input needed should any dust-related complaints or council inspections arise during works.
Review of site location, development proposals and specific planning requirements.
Undertaking IAQM-aligned dust risk screening and evaluation.
Preparation of a site-specific, proportionate Dust Management Plan.
Issue of planning-grade assessment and management documentation within 5 working days. Ongoing support in responding to Environmental Health or planning officer comments, free revisions included.
We provide the expertise to simplify complex challenges for faster approvals of tough planning requirements.
Still have any questions about air quality, dust risk assessments or planning?
An assessment is required whenever demolition or construction activities have the potential to impact nearby sensitive receptors, such as residents, schools, or habitats. It is a standard requirement for planning validation or to discharge specific Environmental Health conditions.
We issue our planning-grade reports and Dust Management Plans (DMP) within 5 working days of instruction.
Yes. We provide ongoing support to address comments from the Local Planning Authority or Environmental Health Officers. Free report revisions are included as standard to ensure your project stays on track.
No. Our goal is to provide a proportionate response. We only recommend physical monitoring where it is technically justified by the scale of risk and site sensitivity. In many cases, robust on-site management practices are sufficient.
Yes. A site-specific Dust Management Plan is a core part of our service. This provides your construction team with a practical, workable manual that translates the risk assessment into clear on-site actions.
