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The Improvement Service
Spatial Hub Custodian
01506 282012
Livingston
West Lothian
EH54 6AX
United Kingdom
spatialhub@improvementservice.org.uk
2022-08-08T11:51:14
UK GEMINI
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Local Landscape Areas - Scotland
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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 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 NatureScot and Historic Environment 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.
https://www.nature.scot/professional-advice/protected-areas-and-species/protected-areas/local-designations/local-landscape-areas
The Improvement Service
Spatial Hub Custodian
01506 282012
Livingston
West Lothian
EH54 6AX
United Kingdom
spatialhub@improvementservice.org.uk
Protected sites
Area management/restriction/regulation zones and reporting units
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
2008-06-01
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Limitations on public access
Use of the data is available to any organisation that is a member of the PSGA (Public Sector Geospatial Agreement) or any UK academic institution via Edina's subscription Digimap service. It is not currently commercially available.
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Local Landscape Areas - Scotland
A link to the CKAN metadata record on the Spatial Hub. A direct link to the OGC Web Feature Service and Web Map Service is available here.
https://www.spatialdata.gov.scot:443/geonetwork/srv/api/records/ea8906a7-ed3e-4f1c-8c79-c8ff68a2f3d2/formatters/xml
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EDINA Digimap Service
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https://www.nature.scot/sites/default/files/2020-10/Guidance%20on%20Designating%20Local%20Landscape%20Areas.pdf
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Guidance on Designating Local Landscape Areas
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
2010-12-08
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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.