Expert air quality, dust and odour assessments across Burnley and East Lancashire. Our chartered professionals support planning applications for canal-side regeneration, aerospace manufacturing and residential development throughout the borough.
Burnley is an East Lancashire mill town with a distinctive industrial character shaped by the Leeds-Liverpool Canal and the M65 motorway, both of which run through the heart of the borough and define its air quality landscape. Burnley Borough Council has declared Air Quality Management Areas covering the A679, the A646 and the town centre, where traffic-related nitrogen dioxide concentrations have required formal action under the Local Air Quality Management framework. The M65, which connects Burnley to Blackburn in the west and Colne in the east, is the primary source of background air pollution across a broad corridor and must be carefully characterised in any air quality assessment for sites in the motorway's influence zone.
The borough has a strong and growing advanced manufacturing and aerospace sector centred on Burnley Aerospace Business Park, which is home to major precision engineering and composites operations including Safran. These facilities, alongside other industrial operators in the borough, create a requirement for air quality and odour assessments in support of both planning applications and environmental permit applications. At the same time, canal-side regeneration along the Leeds-Liverpool Canal is bringing new residential development to former industrial waterfront land, creating a need for careful assessment of air quality impacts on future occupants from both local road traffic and the M65 background environment.
At Air Dust Odour, we provide air quality, dust and odour assessments for the full range of development types encountered in Burnley: from large-scale industrial and aerospace operations requiring bespoke odour and emissions assessments, to residential canal-side schemes requiring detailed exposure assessments for future occupants, to construction dust management plans for brownfield regeneration projects. Our Chartered Environmentalists deliver authoritative reports that meet the requirements of Burnley Borough Council and the Environment Agency, supporting your project from pre-application through to planning determination.
We provide specialist air quality, dust and odour assessment services for planning applications across Burnley and East Lancashire.
Screening and detailed air quality assessments for residential, commercial and industrial developments across Burnley Borough. Our assessments address the A679, A646 and town centre AQMA corridors, account for M65 background concentrations, and follow IAQM and EPUK guidance to satisfy Burnley Borough Council's planning requirements.
Dust risk assessments and Construction Environmental Management Plans for brownfield regeneration, canal-side development and industrial construction across the borough. With dense residential areas and sensitive canal-side environments often adjacent to development sites, robust dust management measures are essential throughout demolition, earthworks and construction phases.
Kitchen extract odour risk assessments using the EMAQ+ methodology for restaurants, takeaways, cafes and commercial kitchens across Burnley. We produce the detailed odour risk reports required by Burnley Borough Council for new or expanded food premises, assessing canopy design, filtration requirements and extract discharge heights.
Industrial odour impact assessments for aerospace manufacturing, advanced engineering and other process operations across the Burnley area. We use dispersion modelling and odour measurement to characterise emissions and assess impacts on sensitive receptors, producing reports suitable for planning applications and Environment Agency environmental permit applications.
We provide air quality, dust and odour assessment services across Burnley and the surrounding East Lancashire area.
If your development is located within or adjacent to Burnley Borough Council's Air Quality Management Areas — covering the A679, the A646 and the town centre — an air quality assessment will typically be required. Residential developments introducing new sensitive receptors near these corridors, canal-side regeneration schemes and commercial or industrial proposals generating significant HGV movements are all categories of development where Burnley's planning officers expect a formal air quality submission. The M65 running through the borough adds an additional layer of background air quality sensitivity that affects a wide area around the motorway corridor.
The M65 motorway passes directly through Burnley Borough, connecting the town to Blackburn to the west and Colne to the east, and is the dominant source of traffic-related air pollution across a wide corridor north and south of the carriageway. Developments within several hundred metres of the M65 will typically need detailed dispersion modelling to demonstrate that nitrogen dioxide and particulate matter concentrations at new sensitive receptors are within acceptable limits. The M65 also generates significant HGV flows that affect local road quality, and cumulative assessment of both motorway and local road traffic is often required for development sites in the Burnley area.
Advanced manufacturing and aerospace operations at Burnley Aerospace Business Park — including facilities operated by Safran and other precision engineering businesses — may require air quality assessments for new process plant, odour assessments where manufacturing processes generate fugitive emissions, and construction dust assessments for new buildings or expansion works. Environmental permit applications for process operations will additionally require assessment under the Environmental Permitting Regulations. We have experience advising aerospace and advanced manufacturing operators on the full range of environmental assessment requirements at complex industrial sites.
Yes. The Leeds-Liverpool Canal corridor through Burnley is attracting new residential development as canal-side regeneration gathers pace, and many of these sites lie close to the town centre AQMA or the A679 and A646 corridors. New residential development on these sites must demonstrate that future occupants will not be exposed to unacceptable air quality, typically through a combination of dispersion modelling and, where necessary, specification of mechanical ventilation with filtration. A construction dust assessment will also be required during the build phase to protect existing residents and waterway users.
Screening assessments typically start from around £500 and can be completed in 5 to 10 working days. Detailed assessments with ADMS dispersion modelling generally start from around £1,500 and take 2 to 4 weeks, depending on site complexity and traffic data availability. Industrial odour assessments for manufacturing operations vary in cost depending on source complexity. Contact us for a free, no-obligation quote for your Burnley project.
