Rochdale Borough Urban Planning Boundaries for Shopping Centres (2006)

June 2006 town, district, and local centre boundaries from the Rochdale Unitary Development Plan. The dataset contains spatial allocations for planning policies on shopping and the roles of centres, including primary and secondary shopping areas. It was published by Rochdale Borough Council and is available in WMS format.

Use Cases

• Mapping primary and secondary shopping centre extents based on the UDP Chapter 10 allocations.
• Analyzing the hierarchy of retail centres (G/S/1 policy) for urban development studies.
• Visualizing district and local centre boundaries (S/6 policy) for infrastructure planning.

Strengths

• Specific temporal coverage tied to the June 2006 Unitary Development Plan.
• Clear policy context with references to specific planning allocations (G/S/1, S/3, S/4, S/6).
• Data is provided in the standard WMS geospatial format.

Limitations

• Row count and column-level documentation are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data may reflect geographic and temporal bias inherent to a single local authority plan from 2006.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

Rochdale Borough Council

Collection Method

Likely created as part of the statutory Unitary Development Plan process.

Time Range

June 2006

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-08 13:31:04.367995; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Rochdale Borough, UK