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Local Air Quality Management (LAQM) Support
Welcome to the LAQM Support Pages provided by Defra and the Devolved Administrations.
These pages contain a variety of support functions for local authorities and practitioners of local air quality management.
See our What's new page here to help keep you to up to date with changes to the content of these pages.
The functions include:
- A Helpdesk for email and telephone queries on all aspects of local air quality management
- Tools to assist with assessment of air quality – including:
- NOx/NO2 calculator
- Emissions Factor Toolkit for road transport
- diffusion tubes related tools (bias and precision, exposure calendars)
- volatile correction model (VCM) for TEOM based PM10 monitoring data
- background maps
- and many others - a list of tools is now available to download.
- Information for Review and Assessment - Checklists, example Reports and the Report Submission Webpages.
- A website showing all currently declared Air Quality Management Areas in the UK
- Information for Action Planning including detail on Measures, Good Practice and Case Studies and Action Planning Supporting Guidance.



