Land use planning and pollution control in practice

This paper records a study of the effectiveness of land use planning powers in regulating land use activities of pollution significance in a large city. The next five chapters of this paper deal with the planning and pollution backgrounds of the City of Manchester. Chapter 2 consists of a review of the powers and responsibilities of planning authorities in pollution abatement, and of various recommendations made as to how these may be further optimized. Chapter 3 examines previous development plans for Manchester with regard to pollution control strategies. The next chapter (4) describes Manchester's innovative role in bringing about air pollution control measures in the past, and is followed by an account of how the various regulatory authorities currently exercise control within the Greater Manchester Metropolitan County. Air pollution levels - smoke, sulfur dioxide and particulates - in Greater Manchester and their likely trends are dealt with in Chapter 6. The following three chapters concern two developments of environmental significance in East Manchester, these case studies forming the main part of the paper. Chapter 7 describes the social and topographical characteristics of the environs of these projects and reviews levels of, and trends in, air and noise pollution. The next two of these chapters trace the case studies from inception through to early 1979 using both records held by Manchester City Corporation and the results of interviews with the various persons concerned. Chapters 8 and 9 are concluded by discussions and observations on how the pollution implications of each development were handled. In the last chapter conclusions are drawn about the practice of planning and pollution control in the City of Manchester.