NSW local government air quality toolkit: guidance notes and visual guides
These guidance notes and visual guides were developed to support council officers in managing air quality issues.
These 15 guidance notes and 4 visual guides provide information about best-management practices that apply to specific activities or operations to reduce air emissions.
The industrial and commercial guidance notes provide industry specific information about best management practices to prevent or minimise air emissions from industrial and commercial activities. They cover the agricultural sector, construction industry and other commercial premises found in both urban and rural settings.
The land-use planning and climate change impacts guidance notes complement the industrial and commercial guidance notes . They provide general information on the interaction between land-use planning and climate change, including key considerations for councils.
Guidance notes
Industrial and commercial
Agricultural burning (PDF 1.3MB)
Beef cattle feedlots (PDF 2.3MB)
Composite structural products (PDF 750KB)
Construction sites (PDF 2.1MB)
Crematoria emissions (PDF 1.2MB)
Meat chicken production (PDF 2MB)
Small-scale sawmills (PDF 1.6MB)
Land-use planning
Neighbourhood smoke
Neighbourhood smoke (PDF 1.6MB)
Climate change impacts
Climate change impacts (PDF 900KB)
Visual guides
These visual guides provide easy to understand information to help council officers when investigating odour or smoke complaints. They include photographic examples and use a traffic light system to indicate good practice or effective management (green), a situation that could be improved (red and yellow), or a situation where the management is unsuitable and needs to be improved (red).
Dust from construction sites (PDF 3.9MB)