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Building Standards - Scotland

Publisher
Scottish Government SpatialData.gov.scot
Updated
8 July 2026
Topic
Not set
Licence
Not set

Summary

This new building standards data has been created using a custom built 'Cloud Connector Framework' which enables the automated collection of data from local data systems. There are 2 layers: Points & polygons (not all local authorities collect polygon data) ALL 32 LOCAL AUTHORITY VERIFIERS ARE NOW PROVING DATA ON A DAILY BASIS A Building Standards Register is maintained by local authorities verifiers under the terms of Section 24 of the Building (Scotland) Act 2003. Local authorities are responsible for granting permission for work to be done (building warrant) and for a completed building to be occupied (completion certificate). These registers are online and searchable and published as weekly lists in a similar way to planning applications. Registers typically contain details of applications at the following stages of the building warrant process: Received Decided Commenced Completed We strongly recommend that when using the WFS for this dataset, because of its size, you use it with a filter. For example with the attributes 'local_authority'. A powerBI dashboard highlighting some data quality issues we have found is available to view at https://shorturl.at/9NzAX

Data links

Link Format Preview Updated
Building Standards Open Version - Scotland 26/7/2025
Building Standards Premium Version - Scotland 26/7/2025

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Additional information

Source Metadata
XML, HTML
Date added
25 July 2025
Harvest GUID
078a7c96-28d5-4b14-8c15-19a993cb08e0
Extent (Latitude)
60.7478° to 54.3811°
Extent (Longitude)
-8.0298° to 0.3225°
Dataset reference date (revision)
2025-07-25
Frequency of update
daily
Access constraints
No limitations on public access
Responsible party
The Improvement Service (pointOfContact)
ISO 19139 resource type
dataset
Metadata language
eng