The phrase "air quality plan" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to a strategy or set of measures aimed at improving or managing the quality of air in a specific area.
Example: "The city has implemented a comprehensive air quality plan to reduce pollution levels and protect public health."
Alternatives: "air quality strategy" or "air quality management plan".
London's air quality plan will need to be revised by 11 June 2011 to include the short-term measures and submitted to the commission".
In developing the air quality plan, the environment secretary, then Liz Truss, had sought the "minimum" steps needed to avoid fines, with officials advising that "2020 is likely to be the earliest the EU will move to fines".
"There is nothing in the public domain to suggest that expansion at Heathrow has been assessed against the government's air quality plan, which is in any event subject to a judicial review challenge," it warns.
The most recent Defra air quality plan includes Clean Air Zones for five cities - Birmingham, Derby, Leeds, Nottingham and Southampton - where councils will impose charges on polluting vehicles to discourage them from coming into city centres.
Ridding inner London of virtually all diesel vehicles would solve the capital's air pollution crisis, according to research published as the high court is due to rule on the government's air quality plan.
The UK is second only to Italy in Europe for the highest number of annual deaths from a major air pollutant, a report has found just days after a court gave UK ministers a deadline for drawing up a stronger air quality plan.
The UK's highest court ordered Defra to produce new air quality plans to bring pollution down to legal levels in the "shortest possible time".
In its judgement, the court said: "The Supreme Court unanimously orders that the government must submit new air quality plans to the European Commission no later than 31 December 2015".
The judgment also ordered the then (and now current) Environment Secretary, Liz Truss, to prepare new air quality plans to bring air quality within legal limits in the shortest time possible.
The panel of five judges unanimously ordered that "the government must prepare and consult on new air quality plans for submission to the European Commission no later than 31 December 2015".
There are some limited areas where air pollution remains an issue but that's being dealt with by the air quality plans, which set out all the important work being done at national, regional and local levels to make sure we meet EU limits as soon as we can".
