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Scottish Land LiDAR Programme - 2025 capture - LAS
The Scottish Land LiDAR Programme is the result of collaboration across government to capture LiDAR data for the country. The Rural and Environment Science and Analytical... -
Contaminated Land (Confirmed) - Scotland
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... -
Smoke Control Areas - Scotland
Under Section 18 of the Clean Air Act 1993, many parts of Scotland are declared Smoke Control Areas by the relevant local authority. If you live in a smoke control area it is an... -
Air Quality Management Areas - Scotland
Local Authorities have a duty to designate any relevant areas where the air quality objectives are not (or are unlikely to be) being met as Air Quality Management Areas (AQMAs).... -
Scottish Land LiDAR Programme - 2025 capture - DTM
The Scottish Land LiDAR Programme is the result of collaboration across government to capture LiDAR data for the country. The Rural and Environment Science and Analytical... -
Surface Coal Mining
Surface Mining Areas denote an area of coal extracted by surface excavations in the past or are being excavated currently, these sites do not necessarily reflect the extent of... -
Scottish Land LiDAR Programme - 2025 capture - DSM
The Scottish Land LiDAR Programme is the result of collaboration across government to capture LiDAR data for the country. The Rural and Environment Science and Analytical... -
Coal Mine Entry
The Coal Authority has records of over 175,000 mine entries within the UK captured in the National Coal Mining database, derived from sources including abandonment plans,... -
Cycling Network - Scotland
Many local authorities capture details of the cycle network within their jurisdiction. These may be lanes along roads or segregated paths away from vehicles. This dataset... -
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... -
Town Centres - Scotland
Town centres and other retail centres are defined by local authorities to meet the requirement of Scottish Planning Policy (paragraph 61) to identify town centres and other... -
Renewable Energy Sites - Scotland
All local authorities will receive planning applications for renewable energy sites. Where local authorities have managed to categorise these in a structured way, we are... -
Local Nature Reserves - Scotland
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... -
Core Paths - Scotland
Every local authority and National Park authority (access authorities) in Scotland is required to draw up a plan for a system of paths (core paths) sufficient for the purpose of... -
Article 4 Directions - Scotland
An Article 4 Direction is a statement made under The Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (Scotland) Amendment Order 2011. The Direction, made by a local... -
Conservation Areas - Scotland
Under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Scotland) Act 1997 a local authority may determine which parts of its area are of special architectural or historic... -
Culverts - Scotland
Scottish legislation (Section 17) of the Flood Risk Management (Scotland) Act 2009 dictates that records of culverts must be created and maintained. Specifically: (1) Every... -
SGN gas network - Scotland
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... -
Scottish wildfire and muirburn extents
Dataset containing best available data on wildfires and muirburn locations in Scotland from 2018 onwards. Owing to limitations in satellite imagery availability (cloud) and... -
Local Development Plans - Scotland
Development plans set out the long term vision for development in each planning authority and are used to assess planning applications. The latest available local development...