Nitrogen Dioxide: Pollution Control

(asked on 30th June 2025) - View Source

Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 28 April to Question 45559 on Nitrogen Dioxide: Pollution Control, which localised hotspot in the West Midlands Urban Area reporting zone is delaying compliance until 2032.


Answered by
Emma Hardy Portrait
Emma Hardy
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
This question was answered on 8th July 2025

The localised hotspots that inform our estimates of when each reporting zone is predicted to become compliant are set out in the following table. The predicted years of compliance in Question 45559 were based on 2023 data. For each zone, the hotspot location with the highest 2023 annual average NO2 concentration has been given, as that site drives the predicted compliance year.

This data is based on data gathered under the previous Government.

Reporting Zone

Estimated Compliance Year

Hotspot Location

Measured 2023 Concentration µg/m3

Bristol Urban Area

2031

Colston Avenue, Bristol

48.9

Coventry and Bedworth

2026

Holyhead Road, Coventry

45.9

Eastern

2026

Southend Arterial Road, Basildon

48.9

Greater London Urban Area

2024

A201 (City of London), A501 (Westminster)

41.9; 41.6 (modelled value)

Liverpool Urban Area

2029

Pembroke Place, Liverpool

49.7

Nottingham Urban Area

2024

Ilkeston Road, Nottingham

41.1

Portsmouth Urban Area

2026

Alred Road, Portsmouth

43.7

Reading and Wokingham Urban Area

2024

Malcolm Place, Reading

42.6

Sheffield Urban Area

2031

Brightside Lane, Sheffield

48.8

The Potteries

2032

Etruria Road, Stoke-on-Trent

58.4

West Midlands Urban Area

2032

Moor Street Queensway, Birmingham.
Priory Queensway, Birmingham

51.5, 51.5

West Yorkshire Urban Area

2029

Shipley Airedale Rd, Bradford

47.8

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