Local Air Quality Reporting

Annual Status Reports

The Local Air Quality Management (LAQM) framework requires local authorities to provide an Annual Status Report (ASR) of air quality within their areas. WRS produce and submit these reports annually on behalf for local authority partners.

In these documents you will find information on the status of air quality, where air monitoring is carried out, what the levels are and the activities and progress taking place in each area to improve air quality where exceedances of government air quality objectives occur.

Air Quality Action Plans

Where an Air Quality Management Area (AQMA) is designated, the local authority must prepare an Air Quality Action Plan (AQAP) setting out the measures it intends to put in place in to improve local air quality and achieve compliance with the national objectives.

There are three current published AQAPs:

• Bromsgrove District Council Air Quality Action Plan (2025-2030)
• Worcester City Council Air Quality Action plan (2024-2029)
• Wyre Forest District Council Air Quality Action Plan (2025-2030)

The published AQAPs detail the measures the local authorities and air quality partners are enacting to reduce concentrations and emissions of nitrogen dioxide (NO₂) to achieve compliance with national objectives within determined areas of poor air quality.

Although measures outlined within AQAPs are focus on reducing NO₂ across Worcestershire, Defra advise actions taken will also result in linked improvements in other pollutants such as particulate matter.

Links to Air Quality pages and related topics:

• Air Quality - Home
• Current Air Quality - Interactive air quality maps and public portal to real-time monitoring network
• Air Pollutants – Information on air pollutants, sources and impacts
• Air Pollution and Health – How air pollution affects our health
• Local Air Quality Management - Legislation, policy, standards and objectives 

• Protecting Me and Others from Air Pollution - Practical advice on how to minimise exposure to poor air quality

• What we are doing to improve air quality – Our work in the community, resources for schools, Clean Air Day 2025 – get involved!
• Air Quality Management Areas – areas of poor air quality in Worcestershire requiring improvement

• Pollution – Planning and Pollution, Permitted industrial installations and practices, requests for Environmental Information