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Documents and Useful websites

AIR QUALITY

  1. Lynsted Parish Council Meeting: 29th February: Community Report on what we heard.
  2. Swale Borough Council Air Quality Management Area (AQMA) Order No.5 (Teynham) - Councillor Simmons agreed to look for suitable sites to increase monitoring points along the road with residents facing the A2 and there are homes on both sides of the road. The reference to Teynham is shorthand for the whole community on the A2.
  3. Full Teynham Air Quality Technical Report (PDF)
  4. Ospringe Street AQMA LAQM Further Assessment (Jan 2013) PDF. An update on the first survey of 2020 - more pessimistic.
  5. Swale Annual Reports on Local Air Quality Management (LAQM):: 2013 Report:: 2014 Report (identified "exceedence" of regulatory 'safe levels' of harmful pollution.)
  6. Local Air Quality Management - Technical Guidance can be downloaded. (PDF 2.45Mb, 318 pages). This document supports Local Authorities in carrying out their duties under the Environment Act 1995 and subsequent Regulations. These Review and Assessments form the cornerstone of the system of Local Air Quality Management (LAQM).
  7. World Health Organisation (WHO) Technical Report on_Harmful_Air_Pollution (2013) PDF. Answers 24 questions on air pollution and health aspects. It combines the latest thinking on what is "safe" - observing that lower levels of pollutants (since 2005 review) are harmful.
  8. WHO Report on Health Effects of Black Carbon (Harmful Particulates) (2012) PDF.
  9. WHO Health effects of Particulate Matter (2013) PDF. Good plain English introduction - written for Eastern Europe, but science remains the same.

Kent Air - describing wider pollution across the Kent county
Website: www.kentair.org.uk

National Air Monitoring Service and Resource - Low detail at local level. National background figures.
Website: uk-air.defra.gov.uk

PLANNING

National Planning Searchable Guidelines Website

  1. Sketch Plan for 120 homes (Picture)
  2. Aerial View of Site, including adjacent land offered by landowner for 170 more homes. (Picture)
  3. Agricultural Land south of A2 is classified as "Excellent" (Borough Planners should protect from development) (Picture)
  4. National Planning Policy Framework (2012) PDF. A key document governing planning authorities.
  5. National Planning Policy Guidance - online Government Resource. For the first time, planning practice guidance is easily accessible, searcheable.

Pollution and building estates

Images that remind us of what we value or fear

Positive Images

John Gilbert - the "Sensitive Edge"

Our "Sensitive Edge"
Sensitive Edge of A2 Lynsted Sensitive Edge of A2 Lynsted
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Negative Images

 

KEEPING IN TOUCH

Useful Contact List
at the bottom of this column
  1. SWALE BOROUGH COUNCIL TIMETABLE - PDF posted 4th April 2016. Take a look at the Library of documents on SBC website (HINT: search on year to find latest documents)
  2. Lynsted Parish Council agendas and Minutes - decisions are made on your behalf. Make sure you are aware of changes, policies, decisions and services by visiting the Parish Council website regularly.....avoid any surprises.
  3. Developer's Public Exhibitions: 11th April 2016
  4. 1st April, resident letter to Swale BC, councillors, and Parish Councils explaining concerns about "PREMATURITY" and new policy constraints attached to harmful pollution being found along our stretch of the A2. Opportunism by developers is no substitute for proper consultative processes and Borough planning.
  5. SPECIAL GREEN SPACES. Resident's nomination of the "sensitive edge" to the south of the London Road as "Special Green Space" based on the democratic arguments found in - Lynsted Parish Design Statement.

Gallery

Snap shots of what we most value
- the "sensitive edge"

Media Stories

  1. Teynham PC last ditch objection to brick-earth extraction at Barrow Green adding too many lorries to our roads. (10th March 2016)

Contacts