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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...

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A ‘polling place’ is defined as the building or area in which a polling station will be located. A ‘polling station’ is the room or area within the polling place where voting takes place. Unlike polling districts and polling places which are fixed by the local authority, polling stations are...

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A ‘polling district’ is a geographical subdivision of an electoral area such as an electoral Ward within which a polling place is designated. The Representation of the People Act 1983 places a duty on LA to divide the local authority area into polling districts based on ward boundaries, and to...

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Most councils keep records of their car parks, bays and zones, including parking-related TROs (Traffic Regulation Orders). Therefore we have tried to compile these into consistent national layers. Currently, we publish four layers: - Car Parks - a polygon layer - Car Parks - a point layer -...

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All GHiGs datasets cover the whole of Scotland and have been derived by Greenspace Scotland over the project period of September 2020 to April 2021. Principal third party data suppliers include:

• Ordnance Survey (greenspace and water body data)
• Scottish Government (Scotland’s...

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Land is legally defined as 'contaminated' where substances are causing or could cause significant harm to people, property or protected species as well as causing significant pollution to surface waters (for example lakes and rivers) or groundwater. Land can become contaminated by a variety of...

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SGN create 4 separate data layers (by pressure tier) to depict the location of their gas network: LP - Low Pressure (19 mbar - 75 mbar) MP - Medium Pressure (75mbar - 2 bar) IP - Intermediate Pressure (2 bar - 7 bar) HP - Regional High Pressure (>7 bar) In order to assess the risk of planning...

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HERs (Historic Environment Records) developed out of SMRs (Sites and Monuments Records). SMRs were established from the 1960s onwards in response to the loss of the archaeological resource through urban and rural development. The expansion of SMR/HERs to almost full UK-wide cover by 2004 was...

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Local government in Scotland comprises 32 unitary local authorities, which are responsible for the provision of a range of public services such as education, licensing regulations, social care, transport and waste management. The current authority boundaries are largely a result of reorganization...

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This point location dataset of the name, address, location and unique IDs (with Unique Property Reference Number) of every older person care home in Scotland has been supplied by the Care Inspectorate.

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This point dataset includes the name, code, address, type, ownership, location and Unique Property Reference Number of every current NHS hospital in Scotland. It has been supplied to us by Public Health Scotland and turned into a GIS layer using their supplied coordinates.

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This dataset of the name, address, location and Unique Property Reference Number of every registered pharmacy in Scotland has been sourced from https://www.opendata.nhs.scot/dataset . That data ultimately come from a database maintained by Practitioner & Counter Fraud Services, NSS and is...

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Each Local Authority should have a list of libraries within their Council area. These may be static i.e. located in one building all of the time, or mobile i.e. they are in vehicles that attend a set location on a specific day at a certain time. This data may also be collected as part of other...

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Many Local Authorities capture locational details of certain safety features located across their area of jurisdiction. This dataset attempts to pull those features together into one single national dataset. It currently contains defibrillator, water access points, fire hydrant, lifebelt and CCTV...

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A council development plan may designate a green belt around a city or town to support the spatial strategy by: - directing development to the most appropriate locations and supporting regeneration; - protecting and enhancing the character, landscape setting and identity of the settlement; and -...

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This dataset is an amalgamation of all Scottish Council Asset Registers based (partly) on LAs Community Asset Transfer Registers and previous ePIMS submissions.

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This dataset is an amalgamation of all Scottish Council Asset Registers based (partly) on LAs Community Asset Transfer Registers and previous ePIMS submissions.

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Most councils will keep a record of their recycling and waste management facilities. Therefore we have tried to compile these into a consistent national layer. The layer contains Recycling Places (including locations of bins and centres) and Waste Management Sites (including transfer centres and...

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Low Emission Zones (LEZs) are designed to improve air quality and were introduced across Aberdeen, Dundee, Edinburgh and Glasgow. Planning continues at a national and local authority level. Local grace periods now apply until enforcement begins. In Glasgow, the LEZ enforcement started on 1 June...

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Local nature reserves are areas of (at least) locally important natural heritage, designated and managed by local authorities to give people better opportunities to learn about and enjoy nature close to where they live. They are found across the country, but generally close to towns and cities....