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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. Broad Rental Market Areas. Scottish Government https://services.mspdata.eu:/geonetwork/srv/api/records/ecf60902-9e71-41bc-b822-6a1f37934dc1 |
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- Date ( Creation )
- 2009-01-05
- Date ( Revision )
- 2015-07-28
- Identifier
- www.gov.scot / SG_BroadRentalMarketAreas
- Presentation form
- mapDigital Digital map
Publisher
Scottish Government
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GI-SAT
(Geographic Information Science and Analysis Team )
Victoria Quay
Edinburgh
EH6 6QQ
United Kingdom
Point of contact
Scottish Government
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Rent Officer
(Rent Service Scotland )
Highlander House, 58 Waterloo Street
Glasgow
Scotland
G2 7DA
United Kingdom
- Maintenance and update frequency
- notPlanned Not planned
- IPSV - Integrated Public Sector Vocabulary Version 2
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- Housing , Rent
- GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 ( Theme )
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- Statistical units
- Access constraints
- otherRestrictions Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- No limitations on public access
- Use limitation
- 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)
- Use limitation
- 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 Vector
- Denominator
- 10000
- Metadata language
- eng English
- Topic category
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- Boundaries
- Geographic identifier
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GB-SCT
- Date ( Publication )
- 2007-12-13
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W
- Reference system identifier
- EPSG / OSGB 1936 / British National Grid (EPSG:27700) / 7.4
- Distribution format
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- WMS (1.3.0 )
- WFS (2.0.0 )
- ESRI REST (1.0 )
- ESRI Shapefile (1.0 )
- OnLine resource
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Broad Rental Market Areas
OGC View Service
- OnLine resource
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Broad_Rental_Market_Areas
OGC Feature Download Service
- OnLine resource
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Broad Rental Market Areas
ESRI REST Service
- OnLine resource
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Statistical Units
ATOM Download Service
- OnLine resource
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Broad Rental Market Areas
ESRI Shapefile Download
- Hierarchy level
- dataset Dataset
- 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
- eng English
- Hierarchy level
- dataset Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2019-06-05
- Metadata standard name
- ISO 19115:2003/19139
- Metadata standard version
- 1.0
Point of contact
Scottish Government
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GI-SAT
(Geographic Information Science and Analysis Team )
Victoria Quay
Edinburgh
EH6 6QQ
United Kingdom
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