Priority Habitats Inventory (England)
This is a spatial dataset that describes the geographic extent and location of Natural Environment and Rural Communities Act (2006) Section 41 habitats of principal importance. This dataset replaces the following three layer services with a new national single layer: Priority Habitat Inventory (North) (England) Priority Habitat Inventory (South) (England) Priority Habitat Inventory (Central) (England) This inventory replaces Natural England's previous separate BAP habitat inventories: blanket bog, coastal & floodplain grazing marsh, coastal sand dunes, coastal vegetated shingle, deciduous woodland, fens, lowland calcareous grassland, lowland dry acid grassland, lowland heathland, lowland meadows, lowland raised bog, limestone pavements, maritime cliff and slope, mudflats, purple moor grass & rush pastures, reedbeds, saline lagoons, traditional orchards, undetermined grassland, upland calcareous grassland, upland hay meadows and upland heathland. These earlier inventories were produced from 1999 onwards and derived from habitat datasets collated from across the country, prioritising areas outside of designated sites. The most recent version (3.0) allows us to map overlapping habitats and additional qualifying information to the habitat classes. Priority Habitats are those which have been deemed to be of principal importance for the purpose of conserving biodiversity, being listed in the UK Biodiversity Action Plan, and with maintenance and restoration of these habitats being promoted through agri-environment schemes. A number of datasets from different sources have been used to build the PHI. Candidate datasets are new datasets being used to update the previous PHI V2.3. The validation datasets were used to help resolve conflicts between the candidate datasets and the data already used in the PHI. Datasets used: Priority Habitats Inventory V2.3 Candidate Datasets: Alkaline Fen / Transition Mire / Quaking Bog Annex 1 Habitat Inventories in England - NE Arnside and Silverdale AONB Habitats - Arnside and Silverdale AONB/Lancaster City Council Border Mires in Northumberland - Forestry England Cumbria Haymeadows - Cumbria Wildlife Trust National Forest Inventory Woodland England 2020 - Forest Research National Trust Habitats - NT PHI Reported Omissions/Errors - NE Rye Harbour Nature Reserve Habitats - West Sussex Wildlife Trust Saltmarsh Extent & Zonation - EA Thursley Hankley and Frensham Common SSSI NVC Survey - NE Traditional Orchard HAP Inventory - NE Spatial framework: OS Mastermap - OS Validation datasets: SSSI Units - NE SSSI Unit Features and Condition Assessments - NE ES and CS Management Option Points - RPA Living England - NE Attribution statement: © Natural England copyright. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right [year].
dataset
protocol: http
name: Attribute Metadata - Priority Habitats Inventory.pdf
description: Attribute Metadata - Priority Habitats Inventory.pdf download on Defra Data Services Platform
protocol: http
name: Open Government Licence.url
description: Open Government Licence.url download on Defra Data Services Platform
protocol: http
name: PHI.lyr
description: PHI.lyr download on Defra Data Services Platform
protocol: http
name: Spatial Metadata - Priority Habitats Inventory.pdf
description: Spatial Metadata - Priority Habitats Inventory.pdf download on Defra Data Services Platform
protocol: http
name: User Guide for Natural England's Priority Habitat Inventory v3.0 Nov2022.pdf
description: User Guide for Natural England's Priority Habitat Inventory v3.0 Nov2022.pdf download on Defra Data Services Platform
protocol: http
name: Priority Habitats Inventory (England) ESRI REST Feature Server Endpoint
description: Priority HabitatsInventory (England) ESRI REST Feature Server Endpoint
https://environment.data.gov.uk/spatialdata/priority-habitat-inventory-england/wms
protocol: http
name: Priority Habitats Inventory (England) WMS
description: Priority Habitats Inventory (England) Web Map Service
https://environment.data.gov.uk/spatialdata/priority-habitat-inventory-england/wfs
protocol: http
name: Priority Habitats Inventory (England) WFS
description: Priority Habitats Inventory (England) Web Feature Service
https://environment.data.gov.uk/explore/92b43165-0dd0-4e69-a712-1e49bb5aa0d0?download=true
protocol: http
name: Priority Habitats Inventory (England) Download
description: Download data by area of interest
https://environment.data.gov.uk/arcgis/rest/services/NE/PriorityHabitatInventoryEngland/MapServer
protocol: http
name: Priority Habitats Inventory (England) ESRI REST Map Server Endpoint
description: Priority Habitats Inventory (England) ESRI REST Map Server Endpoint
protocol: http
name: Natural England Open Data Geoportal page
description: Natural England Open Data Geoportal page
https://environment.data.gov.uk/spatialdata/priority-habitat-inventory-england/ogc/features/v1
protocol: http
name: OGC API - Features service
description: OGC API - Features service
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http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/27700
environment
landscape
Natural England
ecology
habitats
environment
Habitats and biotopes
publication
2008-06-01
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1.79
60.85
49.9
2014-11-24
2099-12-31
creation
2014-11-24
revision
2024-08-15
notPlanned
All data is captured to the British National Grid using the OS MasterMap Topographic Layer.
Open format | Shapefile (SHP)
10.2.2
Custom licence terms: There are no public access constraints to this data. Use of this data is subject to the Open Government Licence - https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/. Contains data created and provided by Cumbria Biodiversity Data Centre on behalf of Cumbria Wildlife Trust. The data has been extracted from Cumbria Wildlife Trust’s Grassland Inventory and is used under the CC BY 4.0 International licence terms - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/)
There are no public access constraints to this data. Use of this data is subject to the licence identified.
There are no public access constraints to this data. Use of this data is subject to the licence identified.
Natural England
data.services@naturalengland.org.uk
https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/natural-england
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pointOfContact
Natural England
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