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Broad Rental Market Areas
Broad Rental Market Area (or BRMA) boundaries are used to determine Local Housing Allowance (LHA) rates. Empowered by the Welfare Reform Act (2007), the Rent Officer has defined the current boundaries in accordance with the Rent Officers (Housing Benefit Functions) (Amendment) Order 2008, which came into force on January 5th, 2009. The Order defines a BRMA as an area (a) comprising two or more distinct areas of residential accommodation, each distinct area of residential accommodation adjoining at least one other in the area; (b) within which a person could reasonably be expected to live having regard to facilities and services for the purposes of health, education, recreation, personal banking and shopping, taking account of the distance of travel, by public and private transport, to and from facilities and services of the same type and similar standard; and (c) containing residential premises of a variety of types and including such premises held on a variety of tenancies.
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Identification info
- Metadata Language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Dataset Reference Date (Creation)
- 2009-01-05
- Dataset Reference Date (Revision)
- 2015-07-28
- Identifier
- www.gov.scot / SG_BroadRentalMarketAreas
- Presentation form
- Digital map
- Maintenance and update frequency
- Not planned
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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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Statistical units
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IPSV Subjects List
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Rent
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Housing
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GEMET - Concepts, version 2.4
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rental housing
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- Limitations on Public Access
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- No limitations to public access
- Use constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- Open Government Licence
- Other constraints
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The following attribution statement must be used to acknowledge the source of the information: Copyright Scottish Government, contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right (insert year)
- Other constraints
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Dataset is complete for Scotland. Care should be taken when using this dataset with lookups to other postcode based geographies. Some postcode unit boundaries will have changed since broad rental market areas were created therefore exact match of the boundaries are unlikely.
- Spatial representation type
- Vector
- Denominator
- 10000
- Topic category
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- Boundaries
- Code
- S92000003
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Temporal reference
Temporal extent
Temporal extent
- Reference system identifier
- EPSG / OSGB 1936 / British National Grid (EPSG:27700) / 7.4
Distribution Information
Data format
- Data format
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Name Version WMS
1.3.0
WFS
2.0.0
ESRI REST
1.0
ESRI Shapefile
1.0
Transfer options
- Resource Locator
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Protocol Resource Locator Name OGC:WMS
https://maps.gov.scot/server/services/ScotGov/StatisticalUnits/MapServer/WMSServer? BroadRentalMarketAreas
OGC:WFS
https://maps.gov.scot/server/services/ScotGov/StatisticalUnits/MapServer/WFSServer? SU:BroadRentalMarketAreas
WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
https://maps.gov.scot/server/rest/services/ScotGov/StatisticalUnits/MapServer/0 Broad Rental Market Areas
WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download
https://maps.gov.scot/ATOM/shapefiles/SG_BroadRentalMarketAreas_2009.zip Broad Rental Market Areas
Data quality info
- Quality Scope
- Dataset
- Statement
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The Rent Officers (Housing Benefit Functions) (Amendment) Order 2008 makes reference to several requirements that each BRMA must have, such as services for health, education, recreation, banking and shopping (known as HERBS). The occurrence of these items were plotted and considered in light of the transport infrastructure both in its availability and the time taken to travel (note that cost was not taken into consideration). In addition, the spread of housing and tenancy types was taken into account. Demographic information and public opinion was used to elicit information of where populations shopped, banked etc. to define ‘neighbourhoods’ which were used as the building blocks of BRMAs. Although BRMA boundaries were not required to follow pre-existing social geographies, it was decided they should conform to postcode geographies for utility. It was not however possible to achieve all the desired splits with postcode sector boundaries therefore BRMAs can be seen as aggregations of postcode units. A revision was made to the boundaries in July 2015 to correct the area of Oban, which had incorrectly been allocated to Highland and Islands BRMA, to be within the Argyll and Bute BRMA.
Metadata
- File identifier
- ecf60902-9e71-41bc-b822-6a1f37934dc1 XML
- Metadata Language
- English
- Resource type
- Dataset
- Metadata Date
- 2021-01-18T15:53:08
- Metadata standard name
- UK GEMINI
- Metadata standard version
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2.3
Point of contact
- Individual name
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GI-SAT
- Organisation name
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Scottish Government
- Position name
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Geographic Information Science and Analysis Team
- Delivery point
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Victoria Quay
- City
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Edinburgh
- Postal code
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EH6 6QQ
- Country
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United Kingdom
- Electronic mail address
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GI-SAT@gov.scot SAT@gov.sco GI-SAT@gov.scot
- Role
- Point of contact