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Pollution

Information on climate change, air quality in Calderdale and a database of businesses that hold environmental permits for their operations.

Air quality

Information about Calderdale Council's air quality monitoring activities.

Clean Air Act approval

Advice about smoke from chimneys, smoke from bonfires and the Clean Air Act 1993.

Climate change

An introduction to the science of climate change, its causes and likely local effects.

Contaminated land

The Contaminated Land regime is a statutory system of requirements set out through the Environmental Protection Act 1990, Section 78. All councils must actively seek to identify sites in their areas that may have been contaminated in the past.

Environmental permits

The Council is responsible for issuing permits to operators who carry out certain types of industrial process. The legal framework for this is the Environmental Permitting Regulations 2007, which came into force in April 2008.

Pollution FAQs

Answers to questions about bonfires, air pollution and excess noise from burglar alarms and aircraft.