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Article 4 Directions - Scotland
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An Article 4 Direction is a statement made under The Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (Scotland) Amendment Order 2011. The Direction, made by a local authority and approved by Scottish Ministers, removes all or some of the permitted development rights on an area.

The effect of a Direction is that planning permission will be required for specific types of development which would otherwise be regarded as 'permitted development', i.e. development that does not require a planning application. Directions can cover a variety of minor works and might include: the replacement of doors and windows, the erection of gates, fences, garages, sheds, porches, storage tanks or the installation of satellite antennae.

Article 4 Directions complement Conservation Areas and may overlap these. This dataset should be used alongside Conservation Areas when considering built environment heritage constraints on development.

Dataset Created
07/12/2021
License
UK Open Government Licence (OGL)
Contacts
Improvement Service
Last Updated
15/01/2026
Data Provided by
Improvement Service
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a4d
la_collection
ckan
lineage
This dataset was amalgamated, optimised and published by the Spatial Hub. This is an amalgamation of two prior datasets, Conservation Areas and Article 4 Directions, which in many cases overlap equally. These cases are assumed to indicate Conservation Areas with associated Article 4 Directions and the duplicate areas are removed as Article 4 Directions prior to amalgamation of these two datasets.The following quality assurance checks and corrections are carried out on the data: - Polygons are not dissolved/ aggregated by key name and local authority.- The minimum polygon area allowed in the data is 5 square metres- Checks for invalid geometry types- The maximum angle for any spikes is 3 degrees- Any duplicate geometry is removed from the data- Duplicate key names for polygons are not removed- Polygons with no key names are not removed- Checks for basic geometry i.e. self-intersectionPlease contact spatialhub@improvementservice.org.uk for more details.
organisation_managed
False
ssdi_link
update_frequency
as needed
Formats:
WFS WMS SHAPEFILE GEOJSON

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No FID local_authority site_ref sh_date_uploaded la_s_code
1 pub_a4d.1 Aberdeenshire -- 2025-04-04 S12000034
2 pub_a4d.2 Aberdeenshire -- 2025-04-04 S12000034
3 pub_a4d.3 Aberdeenshire -- 2025-04-04 S12000034
4 pub_a4d.4 Aberdeenshire -- 2025-04-04 S12000034
5 pub_a4d.5 Aberdeenshire -- 2025-04-04 S12000034
6 pub_a4d.6 Aberdeenshire -- 2025-04-04 S12000034
7 pub_a4d.7 Aberdeenshire -- 2025-04-04 S12000034
8 pub_a4d.8 Aberdeenshire -- 2025-04-04 S12000034
9 pub_a4d.9 Aberdeenshire -- 2025-04-04 S12000034
10 pub_a4d.10 Aberdeenshire -- 2025-04-04 S12000034
Format Last Updated
CSV 16/01/2024
WFS 16/01/2024
WMTS 16/01/2024
Shapefile 16/01/2024
Data Format Last Updated
Article 4 Directions WFS 16/01/2024 More info
Child Dataset(s) Resources Provided
Article 4 Directions - Aberdeenshire 1 30/09/2021 More info
Article 4 Directions - Angus 1 27/02/2017 More info
Article 4 Directions - City of Edinburgh 1 03/07/2017 More info
Article 4 Directions - Dundee City 2 19/07/2023 More info
Article 4 Directions - Glasgow City 1 28/07/2017 More info
Article 4 Directions - South Ayrshire 1 23/03/2017 More info