ENGLAND OPERATIONAL OBSERVATORY

England Air-Quality Evidence Observatory

Current official monitoring evidence, transparent analysis and public-interest environmental review for This Air Quality Project's England operational phase.

Evidence-assurance checks Source, calculation, integrity and provenance checks Latest reviewed evidence package: 2026-08-29T07:38:35+00:00. Scientific conclusions remain bounded by the published release status.
Source collection completed Scientific release operational screen complete How assurance works →
Current live England evidence

ASSESSMENT UNAVAILABLE

No England-wide current environmental assessment is published because the governed monitoring coverage and freshness gate was not met.

The station-level PM2.5 operational screen is reported separately and cannot override the governed England-wide coverage/freshness gate.

134identified monitoring sites
131sites with numeric data
128sites meeting freshness
233/239reporting / identified streams
6dimensions without quality-validated evidence

Evidence acquisition: PASSED. 11 configured joins remain pending or blocked. The PM2.5 operational screen and England-wide current assessment are distinct from the 30-day England AURN review. Screening evidence only; no source attribution, legal or health finding.

Primary evidence product · England 30-day official monitoring review

What England's monitoring data showed

This Air Quality Project analysed 9,405 valid pollutant-day observations across 4,176 unique station-days from 141 reporting stations, covering 9 of 9 English regions between 2026-07-30 and 2026-08-28.

National coverage criteria met
171active English AURN sites discovered
141 / 142configured pollutant-monitor stations reporting
95.0%configured-stream completeness
210WHO-context pollutant-day observations for transparent follow-up

Descriptive pollutant findings

These are measured 30-day station and regional patterns. They are not source-attribution, exposure, health or legal-compliance findings.

PM2.59.38 µg/m³highest eligible 30-day station mean

Northampton Spring Park · East Midlands · 26 valid days

Highest eligible regional median: London (5.19 µg/m³).

WHO-context pollutant-day observations: 28

PM1021.26 µg/m³highest eligible 30-day station mean

Maidstone Upper Stone Street · South East · 30 valid days

Highest eligible regional median: London (12.48 µg/m³).

WHO-context pollutant-day observations: 2

NO226.72 µg/m³highest eligible 30-day station mean

Luton A505 Roadside · East of England · 28 valid days

Highest eligible regional median: East of England (12.54 µg/m³).

WHO-context pollutant-day observations: 180

Interpretation boundary: provisional official monitoring evidence; WHO guideline comparisons are contextual and are not UK legal exceedance counts.

USE, CHALLENGE AND SHARE THE EVIDENCE

Evidence pathways for science, public health, policy, journalism and communities

This Air Quality Project separates the successful England 30-day review from the current live episode screen and provides routes to data, methods, provenance, corrections and external review.

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9/9 regions · 141/142 stations · 9,405 pollutant-day observations across 4,176 unique station-days · 95.0% completeness.

Fresh monitoring sites128128 of 134 resolved England candidate network sites met the four-hour freshness rule
Pollutant time series239PM₁₀ and PM₂.₅ measurement streams
Adjusted PM2.5 candidates0Operational review prompts; formal FDR control not established
Evidence joins0applicable event-level linkage checks
Current data service

Live monitoring active across 128 fresh sites

228 of 239 time series were inside the freshness window and 0 preliminary screening observation(s) were selected for follow-up.

Fresh monitoring sites128128 of 134 met the four-hour freshness rule
Pollutant time series239configured current monitoring streams
Screening flags0preliminary observations selected
Evidence joinsReadyevent-level context can run
15,975quality-accepted observations
134identified physical monitoring sites
Defra UK-AIR Sensor Observation Servicecurrent evidence source
Current screen evaluatedscientific release state

Open data availability and source status

Measurement coverage

Fresh physical monitoring sites128 / 134

Selected monitoring locations inside the evidenced geography and freshness window · 96%

Fresh PM time series228 / 239

PM2.5 and PM10 streams with recent usable observations · 95%

Operational PM2.5 screening snapshot

PM2.5 assessments in source data128
Eligible station assessments120
Adjusted screening candidates0
Not eligible or not assessed8

The screen compares eligible PM2.5 assessments with a short recent-history window. Formal false-discovery-rate control has not been established. A candidate is a review prompt, not a legal exceedance, source finding or health determination.

Official monitoring network

171 active AURN sites discovered across England

The public review distinguishes active sites, configured pollutant streams, reporting stations and station-day completeness. Monitoring evidence is shown separately from the supplementary context layer.

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9/9regions represented
141reporting stations
PM₂.₅ · PM₁₀ · NO₂pollutants analysed
How this review now works

Official monitoring data leads. No location-specific follow-up was activated.

The England-wide monitoring screen runs first. Because no fresh screening event fixed a time window and geographic footprint, no location-specific context was queried or promoted into the active review.

Target-neutrality preserved · no post-discovery context query activated. Proximity and register matches remain context only and cannot establish contribution.

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0standing locations exposed to pre-discovery core
0data-discovered event locations
0post-discovery context locations activated
Noautomated source attribution permitted

Current measurements

Inspect official PM2.5 and PM10 coverage, data-quality exclusions, screening observations and cross-source execution in one public dashboard.

Explore current status

Weekly evidence briefing

Read a public summary organised around what changed, what was checked, what remains uncertain and what evidence is required next.

Read the weekly briefing

Method and provenance

Review acquisition, quality control, statistical screening, evidence linkage and hard claim boundaries in reproducible detail.

Review methods
Primary data firstOfficial measurements lead the analysis.
Uncertainty visibleMissing dimensions and blocked claims remain public.
Externally challengeableSources, methods and publication checks are traceable.
Promoted legacy evidence0 records in this release.
How to read this page

Scientific evidence and software assurance are different

Scientific evidence

Measurements, station and regional coverage, descriptive calculations, source records and stated limitations are the evidence available for review.

Engineering assurance

Automated checks confirm that the pipeline followed its declared rules. They do not constitute peer review, accreditation, regulatory approval or institutional endorsement.

Operational PM2.5 screening interpretation

Adjusted PM2.5 candidate count: 0; eligible station assessments: 120; not eligible or not assessed: 8. A count of zero means only that no eligible assessment crossed every current operational criterion. It does not establish absence of pollution, harmless concentrations, assessment of every station or screening of all pollutants.

Formal false-discovery-rate control has not been established. The live screen does not identify a source and is not a health assessment or regulatory determination.