Local Landscape Areas - Scotland
There are many areas where the scenery is highly valued locally and local authorities often give these landscapes a local designation. This is to ensure that the landscape is not damaged by inappropriate development, and in some cases encourage positive landscape management. These designations play an important role in developing an awareness of the landscape qualities that make particular areas distinctive and promote a community's sense of pride in their surroundings.
The names used for such Local Landscape Areas currently vary from one local authority to another. For example, they are termed 'Areas of Great Landscape Value' in Moray, 'Special Landscape Areas' in Dumfries and Galloway, and 'Sensitive Landscape Character Areas' in Ayrshire. Guidance published by Scottish Natural Heritage and Historic Scotland (see below) suggests the name be standardised to Local Landscape Areas (LLA) now. LLAs complement the National Scenic Area designation, which identifies those landscapes that are seen as nationally important owing to their unsurpassed scenery.
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Simple
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llandd
- Date ( Revision )
- 2020-01-23
- Identifier
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www.spatialhub.scot
/sh_llandd
Point of contact
- Maintenance and update frequency
- asNeeded As needed
- GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 ( Theme )
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Area management/restriction/regulation zones and reporting units
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- Access constraints
- otherRestrictions Other restrictions
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Limitations on public access
- Use limitation
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Use of the data is available to any organisation that is a member of the OSMA (One Scotland Mapping Agreement) or any UK academic institution via Edina's subscription Digimap service. It is not currently commercially available.
- Metadata language
- eng English
- Topic category
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- Environment
- Reference system identifier
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urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4258
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EPSG
/OSGB 1936 / British National Grid (EPSG:27700)
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EPSG
/ETRS89 (EPSG:4258)
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EPSG
/WGS 84 / Pseudo-Mercator (EPSG:3857)
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OGC:WMC
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- OnLine resource
- http://www.spatialhub.scot/get-data/
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- dataset Dataset
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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 allows in the data is 25 square meters
- 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.
Metadata
- File identifier
- ea8906a7-ed3e-4f1c-8c79-c8ff68a2f3d2 XML
- Metadata language
- eng English
- Hierarchy level
- dataset Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2020-01-24
- Metadata standard name
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ISO 19115:2003/19139
- Metadata standard version
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1.0
Metadata catalogue