Identification

Title

Smoke Control Areas - Scotland

Alternative title(s)

sca

Abstract

Under Section 18 of the Clean Air Act 1993, many parts of Scotland are Smoke Control Areas. If you live in a smoke control area it is an offence to produce smoke from a chimney of a building, or a chimney of any fixed boiler or industrial plant, unless you're burning an authorised fuel or using exempt appliances (e.g. burners or stoves). In practice this means that in a smoke control area it is illegal to burn house coal or wood in an open fire, although it is legal to burn these in a stove or other appliance that has been approved to burn that fuel. It is also illegal to deliver any unauthorised solid fuels, e.g. wood and normal house coal, to any premises in a smoke control area unless the seller can demonstrate that they were aware that the unauthorised solid fuel is to be burnt in an exempt appliance.

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

http://www.spatialhub.scot/get-data/

https://www.spatialdata.gov.scot:443/geonetwork/srv/api/records/7e138b52-e8c6-41ee-99d1-9882b5e3025d/formatters/xml

protocol: WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link

name: EDINA Digimap Service

description: EDINA Digimap Service

Unique resource identifier

code

sh_sca

codeSpace

www.spatialhub.scot

Dataset language

eng

Spatial reference system

authority code

EPSG

code identifying the spatial reference system

urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4258

Classification of spatial data and services

Topic category

environment

Keywords

Keyword set

keyword value

Area management/restriction/regulation zones and reporting units

Human health and safety

Atmospheric conditions

Environmental monitoring facilities

originating controlled vocabulary

title

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2008-06-01

Geographic location

West bounding longitude

-8.02985

East bounding longitude

0.32254

North bounding latitude

60.74784

South bounding latitude

54.38113

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

Begin position

End position

Dataset reference date

date type

revision

effective date

2019-10-31

Frequency of update

asNeeded

Quality and validity

Lineage

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 allowed in the data is 25 square metres - Checks for invalid geometry types - The maximum angle for any spikes is 3 degrees - Any duplicate geometry is removed from the data - Duplicate key names for polygons are not removed - 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.

Conformity

Data format

name of format

OGC:WMC

version of format

1.3.0

Constraints related to access and use

Constraint set

Limitations on public access

Constraint set

Use constraints

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.

Responsible organisations

Responsible party

contact position

Spatial Hub Custodian

organisation name

The Improvement Service

full postal address

Livingston

EH54 6AX

United Kingdom

telephone number

01506 282012

email address

spatialhub@improvementservice.org.uk

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata on metadata

Metadata point of contact