WFS Broad Rental Market Area (or BRMA) boundaries are used by Rent Service Scotland 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. ESRI(LongLat) Statistical units housing rental housing WFS 2.0.0 None No limitations to public access Scottish Government GIS Analyst Geospatial Team Victoria Quay City of Edinburgh City of Edinburgh EH6 6QQ United Kingdom GIS@gov.scot Publisher 1.0.0 1.1.0 2.0.0 text/xml; subtype=gml/3.2 none local results hits GML32 GML32+ZIP GML32+GZIP application/gml+xml; version=3.2 GML3 GML3+ZIP GML3+GZIP text/xml; subtype=gml/3.1.1 GML2 GML2+ZIP GML2+GZIP text/xml; subtype=gml/2.1.2 GEOJSON GEOJSON+ZIP GEOJSON+GZIP ESRIGEOJSON ESRIGEOJSON+ZIP ESRIGEOJSON+GZIP KML application/vnd.google-earth.kml xml application/vnd.google-earth.kml+xml KMZ application/vnd.google-earth.kmz SHAPE+ZIP CSV CSV+ZIP CSV+GZIP Geopackage Geopackage+ZIP none local TRUE FALSE FALSE TRUE TRUE FALSE FALSE FALSE TRUE FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE BroadRentalMarketAreas:BroadRentalMarketAreas BroadRentalMarketAreas urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::27700 -8.33670279 54.54948404 -0.72372000 60.85045430 TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE FALSE FALSE FALSE TRUE FALSE TRUE FALSE