A family business which took Glasgow City Council to Scotland’s highest civil court has failed in a bid to stop the operation of the city’s Low Emission Zone.
Cars, lorries and other forms of transportation which do not meet emission guidelines are not allowed and drivers who break the regulations can be fined. She wrote that the local authority had acted in line with information which had provided to them with the Scottish Environment Protection Agency. “These gave a clear basis for Glasgow City Council to reach the conclusion that, without the LEZ scheme, air quality objectives would not be met in a number of city centre locations. That was a serious matter, because there were legal obligations to meet NO₂ air quality objectives by 2005, yet information before Glasgow City Council indicated those objectives were still not being achieved many years later.
The company’s director William Paton has previously spoken of how he commissioned a report by the Hilson Moran Institute to study the impact of the first phase of the LEZ for buses in the city centre which came into force in 2018. In the hearing held last month, Lord Davidson told the court that there were 27 monitoring stations in Glasgow City Centre which monitored levels of Nitrogen dioxide in the air - the gas which the local authority hopes to reduce in the air in the city centre
Lawyers for Paton and Sons claimed that their client’s human rights had been breached by the introduction of the LEZ.
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