Meeting of the Parliament 16 June 2026 [Last updated 15:26]
I would welcome anything that the council decides to do in relation to where it puts its monitors and any pilot that it might want to go forward with. Improving air quality to protect the health of Scotland’s population, particularly children and young people, is a key priority.
The latest air quality data shows that Dundee is meeting its air quality objectives, which is great news and reflects sustained improvements across the whole city. That is underpinned by a robust monitoring network. There are six automatic monitoring stations, which are supplemented by 89 non-automatic monitors located in areas that have been identified by the local authority as having the most need.
The low-emission zone in Dundee is also helping to drive cleaner air. Decisions on where monitors are placed are for the council, but they tend to be in areas of higher pollution. Because those monitors show a decrease in pollution, the low-emission zone is obviously having an effect across the whole city.