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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
Publisher
  Scottish Government - GI-SAT ( Geographic Information Science and Analysis Team )
Victoria Quay , Edinburgh , EH6 6QQ , United Kingdom
Point of contact
  Scottish Government - Rent Officer ( Rent Service Scotland )
Highlander House, 58 Waterloo Street , Glasgow , Scotland , G2 7DA , United Kingdom
Maintenance and update frequency
Not planned

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

  • Statistical units

IPSV Subjects List

  • Rent

  • Housing

GEMET - Concepts, version 2.4

  • rental housing

Limitations on Public Access
Other restrictions
Other constraints
No limitations to public access
Use constraints
Other restrictions
Other constraints
Open Government Licence
Other constraints

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

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
  • 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
Name Version

WMS

1.3.0

WFS

2.0.0

ESRI REST

1.0

ESRI Shapefile

1.0

 

Transfer options

Resource Locator
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

ESRI:REST 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
Conformity
Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services
Explanation
Degree
false
Statement

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

2.3

Point of contact

Individual name

GI-SAT

Organisation name

Scottish Government

Position name

Geographic Information Science and Analysis Team

Delivery point

Victoria Quay

City

Edinburgh

Postal code

EH6 6QQ

Country

United Kingdom

Electronic mail address

GI-SAT@gov.scot SAT@gov.sco GI-SAT@gov.scot

Role
Point of contact
Point of contact
  Scottish Government - GI-SAT ( Geographic Information Science and Analysis Team )
Victoria Quay , Edinburgh , EH6 6QQ , United Kingdom
 
 
 

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Keywords

GEMET - Concepts, version 2.4
rental housing
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
Statistical units
IPSV Subjects List
Housing Rent

Publishing Body

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