Air Quality Management Areas - Scotland

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Scottish Government SpatialData.gov.scot
Last updated:
16 July 2026
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Summary

Local Authorities have a duty to designate any relevant areas where the air quality objectives are not (or are unlikely to be) being met as Air Quality Management Areas (AQMAs). AQMAs must be designated officially by means of an 'order'. The extent of the AQMA may be limited to the area of exceedance or encompass a larger area. Following the declaration of an AQMA, the local authority is required to develop and implement a plan (Air Quality Action Plan) to improve air quality in that area. AQMAs can be for a combination of NO2, SO2, PM10.

Data provided by local authorities is in polygon format. Dundee Council, use the entire extent of their local authority, as digitised in Ordnance Survey's BoundaryLine dataset, for the AQMA.

We have included date of AQMA declaration in our national schema, though many LAs do not currently provide this.

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Policy Guidance N/A 16 July 2026 Not available
Section 83 of UK Environment Act 1995 N/A 16 July 2026 Not available
Air Quality in Scotland website N/A 16 July 2026 Not available
EDINA Digimap Service N/A 16 July 2026 Not available
Air Quality Management Areas - Scotland N/A 16 July 2026 Not available

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Added to data.gov.uk
2026-07-16
Access contraints
No limitations on public access
Harvest GUID
68e89bb8-8093-4049-be8e-0029bad4d13a
Extent
Latitude: 60.7478° to °
Longitude: -8.0298° to 0.3225°
Spatial reference system
Dataset reference date
2026-07-16 (revision)
Frequency of update
asNeeded
Responsible party
The Improvement Service (pointOfContact)
ISO 19139 resource type
dataset
Metadata language
eng
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