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English
GI-SAT
Scottish Government
Geographic Information Science and Analysis Team
Victoria Quay
Edinburgh
EH6 6QQ
United Kingdom
GI-SAT@gov.scot
2021-01-18T15:53:08
UK GEMINI
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OSGB 1936 / British National Grid (EPSG:27700)
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Broad Rental Market Areas
2009-01-05
2015-07-28
SG_BroadRentalMarketAreas
www.gov.scot
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.
GI-SAT
Scottish Government
Geographic Information Science and Analysis Team
Victoria Quay
Edinburgh
EH6 6QQ
United Kingdom
GI-SAT@gov.scot
Rent Officer
Scottish Government
Rent Service Scotland
Highlander House, 58 Waterloo Street
Glasgow
Scotland
G2 7DA
United Kingdom
rrs.dundee@gov.scot
Statistical units
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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GEMET - Concepts, version 2.4
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No limitations to public access
Open Government Licence
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)
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.
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Broad Rental Market Areas
ESRI Shapefile Download
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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.