Air Quality Consultants carried out an air quality assessment for the redevelopment of Albert Wharf, near Wandsworth Bridge in 2015. In 2021 Air Quality Consultants were commissioned to undertake an air quality assessment and greenhouse gas assessment for a new scheme by a different developer on the same site.
The 2015 scheme was a residential led, mixed-use development, which also involved the enclosing of a concrete batching plant to retain the safeguarded wharf status of the site. It was granted planning approval in 2015 but was never built.
In 2021, Air Quality Consultants carried out another air quality assessment as part of the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) for a redesigned development on the same site. The revised scheme is also a residential led, mixed-use development, with new buildings ranging from 6 to 20 storeys in height. The retained safeguarded wharf will be enclosed for industrial/ storage or distribution floorspace.
This assessment included modelling of road traffic emissions, tug boat emissions associated with the safeguarded wharf and diesel generator emissions. The modelling quantified the impacts on air quality at existing and proposed receptors. In addition, due to an adjacent concrete batching plant, the assessment considered the suitability of the site for residential use, through site visits and qualitative assessment. Appropriate design measures for the protection of dust, such as the use of winter gardens, was included in the development. Design advice was also provided regarding the locations of the generator exhaust and residential mechanical ventilation intakes.
An Air Quality Neutral and Air Quality Positive assessment was undertaken in line with the latest London policy requirements.
Air Quality Consultants also carried out a greenhouse gas assessment as part of the EIA process, which quantified the carbon emissions associated with construction materials, works and traffic, operational energy use, transport, water use and maintenance, and end of life decommissioning. The assessment then discussed the significance of these emissions in the context of local and regional emissions.
**The image is from the ALBERT AND SWEDISH WHARF DESIGN AND ACCESS STATEMENT EPR ARCHITECTS Henley Fusion November 2021
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