Decision details

REVOCATION OF AIR QUALITY MANAGEMENT AREAS IN HITCHIN

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Decision Maker: Cabinet

Decision status: Recommendations Approved

Is Key decision?: No

Is subject to call in?: No

Decision:

RESOLVED: That Cabinet approved the Revocation Orders (as appended to this report) for the following areas:

 

•       The No1. AQMA Stevenage Road Hitchin,

•       The No2. AQMA Payne’s Park Hitchin.

 

REASON FOR DECISION: The reason for recommending the Revocation of the AQMAs is that there is no reasonable justification for retaining AQMAs where the air pollution levels can be shown to have significantly reduced below statutory air quality objectives as defined by HM Government within UK Air Quality Regulations.  

Report author: Frank Harrison

Publication date: 21/01/2026

Date of decision: 20/01/2026

Decided at meeting: 20/01/2026 - Cabinet

Accompanying Documents:

• Cabinet AQMA revocation report_ final PDF 232 KB
• Appendix A AQMA Revocation Order No. 1 PDF 309 KB
• Appendix B AQMA Revocation Order No. 2 (002) PDF 203 KB
• Appendix C Cabinet AQMA revocation report PDF 342 KB
• Appendix C1 Cabinet AQMA revocation report PDF 178 KB
• Appendix C2 Cabinet AQMA revocation report PDF 345 KB

 

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