Article 4 Directions

DatasetNational

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.

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Trust score

How is this computed?

fair

Composite of 5 axes from our methodology (proof-based officialness, live verification, metadata completeness, license clarity, agent readiness).

Officialnessweight 25%50/100
Not public-sector → neutral score; not subject to the proof checker.
Availabilityweight 25%100/100
Latest verification succeeded.
Metadata completenessweight 20%15/100
2 of 13 recommended metadata fields populated.
License clarityweight 15%0/100
No license declared upstream.
Agent readinessweight 15%0/100
No machine-actionable signals detected yet.

Data access

CKAN dataset (file distributions)

A CKAN-hosted dataset whose resources are file downloads rather than a queryable DataStore, so no column schema could be read automatically. The dataset page lists the downloadable distributions.

Verification Status

No distribution or landing-page URL available for verification

Using the API

Query examples

curl -s 'https://data.spatialhub.scot/api/3/action/package_show?id=article_4_directions-is' -H 'Accept: application/json'

Full CKAN dataset record: resources, licence, organization, freshness.

Dataset

Volume & freshness

Last upstream update

2 months ago

2026-04-27

License

No license declared upstream.

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