Our specialist consultants provide defensible odour assessments tailored to the specific regulatory requirements of your industry:
Odour can significantly affect amenity, health, and planning outcomes. Effective assessment and control of odour emissions are therefore essential for regulatory compliance, community well-being, and sustainable development. Developments such as commercial kitchens and waste management facilities are often subject to intense scrutiny from planning authorities and the Environment Agency, requiring robust odour impact assessments.
Our team has extensive experience undertaking odour assessments for restaurants, takeaways, and large commercial kitchens. Assessments are carried out following EMAQ+ guidance, ensuring all relevant factors such as kitchen type, scale, cooking methods, ventilation, and abatement systems are appropriately considered.
We work closely with developers, M&E system designers and planning consultants to prepare odour risk assessments and recommend proportionate mitigation, such as filtration and extraction system upgrades, to ensure compliance with planning conditions and protect neighbouring amenity.
Anderson Acoustics has delivered odour assessments for waste transfer stations, anaerobic digestion facilities, composting sites, and other waste management operations developments and residential developments near existing sites. Our work follows IAQM guidance, which provides a structured methodology for assessing odour impacts on sensitive receptors.
Assessments typically involve qualitative risk assessment, complaint history review, site odour surveys, and where appropriate, field olfactometry or dispersion modelling to predict odour exposure at nearby receptors.
Our consultants are certified in field olfactometry, enabling us to directly quantify odour concentrations on-site using industry-standard methods. This adds a high level of accuracy and credibility to our odour surveys and impact assessments, supporting robust conclusions for planning, permitting, compliance purposes and evaluation of odour complaints.
Our team has significant experience assessing odour from sewage treatment works (STWs). We carry out source emission surveys, dispersion modelling, and risk assessments in line with Environment Agency H4 guidance and operator-specific guidance. We also prepare Odour Management Plans (OMPs) and recommend mitigation such as covers, filtration, and process optimisation.
We undertake odour assessments for food-related industries such as bakeries, breweries, fish and meat processing, and rendering plants. Our services include odour source testing, field olfactometry, abatement technology assessment (biofilters, scrubbers, oxidisers), and support with planning applications where odour is a material consideration.
Our odour services are tailored to the scale and nature of the development, but typically include:
Through our odour assessment and surveying services, Anderson Acoustics helps clients achieve compliance, protect amenity, and ensure sustainable, community-friendly development.
A planning stage odour assessment for Southern Water to advise on the risk of odour impacts on a new development of 3 houses near a waste water treatment works
A planning stage noise and odour assessment for a new modular kitchen facility adjacent to Farm Villa, Maidstone Hospital
Odour and noise assessments and mitigation advice following complaints from residents about emissions from rooftop kitchen ventilation plant at this KFC outlet
Planning stage odour assessment in response to an objection from the Wessex Water Developer Services for this residential development planned near a waste water treatment works
Planning stage odour and noise impact assessments for the proposed change of use application from a retail unit (Class A5) to a southern-style takeaway restaurant (Class A1)
A noise and odour risk assessment for the proposed change of use of Parthenon House from offices (Class E(c)) to an Indian cuisine restaurant (Class E(b))
Odour risk assessment for a proposed change of use retail premises in a grade II building
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