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Town Centres - Scotland
Town centres and other retail centres are defined by local authorities to meet the requirement of Scottish Planning Policy (paragraph 61) to identify town centres and other retail locations as part of a network of centres to support retail type development in the most appropriate locations. This network of centres forms part of the sequential test in assessing retail planning applications, which should be located firstly in town centres, then in other retail centres or edge-of-centre sites, so the dataset provides key locational information in assisting retail planning and policies. These centres may be defined in local development plans in the first instance.
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Identification info
- Alternative title
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townc
- Metadata Language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Dataset Reference Date (Revision)
- 2025-04-29
- Identifier
- EPSG / sh_townc
- Maintenance and update frequency
- Annually
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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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Land use
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- Limitations on Public Access
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
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Limitations on public access
- Use constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
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Use of the data is available to any organisation that is a member of the PSGA (Public Sector Geospatial Agreement) or any UK academic institution via Edina's subscription Digimap service. It is not currently commercially available.
- Spatial representation type
- Vector
- Topic category
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- Planning cadastre
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Temporal reference
Temporal extent
Temporal extent
Distribution Information
Data format
- Data format
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Name Version OGC:WMC
1.3.0
Transfer options
- Resource Locator
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Protocol Resource Locator Name WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
https://data.spatialhub.scot/dataset/town_centres-is Town Centres - Scotland
WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
https://www.spatialdata.gov.scot:443/geonetwork/srv/api/records/e6ae5dd4-46ff-4e21-89a8-6605f4f93445/formatters/xml EDINA Digimap Service
Data quality info
- Quality Scope
- Dataset
- Statement
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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 metres
- Checks for invalid geometry types
- The maximum angle for any spikes is 3 degrees
- Any duplicate geometry is removed from the data
- Polygons with no key names are not removed
- Checks for basic geometry i.e. self-intersection
Please contact spatialhub@improvementservice.org.uk for more details. spatialhub@improvementservice.org Please contact spatialhub@improvementservice.org.uk for more details.
Metadata
- File identifier
- e6ae5dd4-46ff-4e21-89a8-6605f4f93445 XML
- Metadata Language
- English
- Resource type
- Dataset
- Metadata Date
- 2025-04-29T10:27:57.313Z
- Metadata standard name
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UK GEMINI
- Metadata standard version
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2.3
Point of contact
- Organisation name
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The Improvement Service
- Position name
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Spatial Hub Custodian
- Voice
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01506 282012
- City
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Livingston
- Administrative area
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West Lothian
- Postal code
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EH54 6AX
- Country
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United Kingdom
- Electronic mail address
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spatialhub@improvementservice.org spatialhub@improvementservice.org.uk
- Role
- Point of contact