The Disability Discrimination Act
Planting schemes will have no mitigation effect against noise.
With regard to air quality, the bunds will make little difference in terms of mitigating emission from the colliery operations – air pollutants simply disperse over the top of them and return to ground level almost immediately over the other side. Planting schemes are more likely to be successful in reducing air pollution, specifically in term of providing a mitigation measure against dust provided that the vegetation is sufficiently dense.
