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To be a Listed Building (LB) a building must: "meet the criteria of special architectural or historic interest" In their Technical, Advice & Guidance, Owner and Occupier Guide, Historic Environment Scotland (HES) states that a building can be defined as: "anything made by people and can include a great variety of other structures such as fountains, …
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Energy Performance Certificates (EPCs) detail the: "energy efficiency of a property, and includes recommendations for improving energy efficiency and reducing energy bills. An EPC is required when a property is constructed, sold or rented out to a new tenant." Scottish domestic EPC (DEPC) and non-domestic EPC (NDEPC) data is available for search and download from …
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Land Surface Temperature (LST) is: "how hot the surface of the Earth would feel to the touch in a particular location" A common source of LST data is Landsat 8 and its 30m x 30m resolution Band 10 Thermal Infrared Scanner (TIRS) imagery. Using this imagery for the settlement of Edinburgh from 06 June 2013 …
Storm Alex affected the United Kingdom on 03 and 04 October 2020 and that Saturday 03 October 2020 was the UK's wettest day on record since records began in 1891. According to the Met Office blog: "The rainfall was very widespread resulting in average rainfall across the entire UK of 31.7mm, or to put it …
A property is an addressable location: - with a typical postal address such as a residential or commercial building. - without a typical postal address such as a bus shelter, electricity substation and advertising hoarding. An alternative to using postal addresses for property identification is to use unique identifiers. Some systems of uniquely identifying Scottish properties …
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