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Air Quality Management Areas - Scotland

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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.

Most data provided by local authorities is in polygon format. However, some is provided in point and line form so we are currently buffering such data by the width of a road or so in order to merge them in to the national polygon dataset. Some smaller local authorities e.g. Dundee, 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. Revoked AQMAs are now held in this dataset with a 'Date revoked' attribute

Dataset Created
11/06/2021
Licence
Open
Contact
Improvement Service
Nazadnje posodobljeno
21/05/2026
Data Provided by
Improvement Service
Alternative Name
aqma
Lineage
This dataset was amalgamated, optimised and published by the Spatial hub. The following quality assurance checks and corrections are carried out on the data: - Polygons are dissolved/ aggregated by key name and local authority.- The minimum polygon area allowed in the data is 25 square meters- 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.
Type
vector
SSDI Link (External Site)
Themes
area management/restriction/regulation zones and reporting units
Frequency of Update
as needed
Formats:
WFS WMS SHAPEFILE GEOJSON
site_name local_authority pollutant date_designated date_revoked url la_s_code last_published_on
ANDERSON DRIVE (NORTH AND SOUTH) Aberdeen City NO2, PM10 2008-12-01 None https://www.aberdeencity.gov.uk/services/environment/air-quality-aberdeen/air-quality-management S12000033 2026-03-05Z
EAST NORTH STREET/COMMERCE STREET Aberdeen City NO2, PM10 2001-06-29 None https://www.aberdeencity.gov.uk/services/environment/air-quality-aberdeen/air-quality-management S12000033 2026-03-05Z
KING STREET (EAST NORTH STREET TO ROSLIN TERRACE) Aberdeen City NO2, PM10 2001-06-29 None https://www.aberdeencity.gov.uk/services/environment/air-quality-aberdeen/air-quality-management S12000033 2026-03-05Z
MARKET STREET/UNION STREET/CASTLE STREET/KING STREET Aberdeen City NO2, PM10 2001-06-29 None https://www.aberdeencity.gov.uk/services/environment/air-quality-aberdeen/air-quality-management S12000033 2026-03-05Z
UNION STREET/HOLBURN STREET/GREAT SOUTHERN ROAD Aberdeen City NO2, PM10 2001-06-29 None https://www.aberdeencity.gov.uk/services/environment/air-quality-aberdeen/air-quality-management S12000033 2026-03-05Z
VIRGINIA STREET/COMMERCE STREET Aberdeen City NO2, PM10 2001-06-29 None https://www.aberdeencity.gov.uk/services/environment/air-quality-aberdeen/air-quality-management S12000033 2026-03-05Z
VIRGINIA STREET/TRINITY QUAY/GUILD STREET Aberdeen City NO2, PM10 2001-06-29 None https://www.aberdeencity.gov.uk/services/environment/air-quality-aberdeen/air-quality-management S12000033 2026-03-05Z
WELLINGTON ROAD (BALNAGASK ROAD TO CRAIG PLACE) Aberdeen City NO2, PM10 2008-12-01 None https://www.aberdeencity.gov.uk/services/environment/air-quality-aberdeen/air-quality-management S12000033 2026-03-05Z
CITY CENTRE City of Edinburgh NO2 2000-12-31 None www.edinburgh.gov.uk/airquality S12000036 2026-03-05Z
GLASGOW ROAD City of Edinburgh NO2 2013-04-26 None www.edinburgh.gov.uk/airquality S12000036 2026-03-05Z
Format Nazadnje posodobljeno
CSV 30/01/2024
WFS 30/01/2024
WMTS 30/01/2024
Shapefile 30/01/2024
Viri Format Nazadnje posodobljeno
Air Quality Management Areas WFS 30/01/2024 More info
Child Dataset(s) Viri Nazadnje posodobljeno
Air Quality Management Areas - Aberdeen City 15 13/05/2026 More info
Air Quality Management Areas - City of Edinburgh 1 16/11/2016 More info
Air Quality Management Areas - Glasgow City 2 18/04/2023 More info
Air Quality Management Areas - Highland 2 03/02/2022 More info
Air Quality Management Areas - North Lanarkshire 1 22/10/2019 More info
Air Quality Management Areas - Perth and Kinross 1 01/12/2022 More info