Identification

Title

Proposed Sites of Special Scientific Interest (England)

Alternative title(s)

SSSI

Proposed SSSI

Abstract

The Proposed SSSI layer is for internal use only. Anyone using the layer to assess a planning application or to answer an external enquiry should check first with the relevant Land Management team adviser. A Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) is the land notified as an SSSI under the Wildlife and Countryside Act (1981), as amended. SSSI are the finest sites for wildlife and natural features in England, supporting many characteristic, rare and endangered species, habitats and natural features. Boundaries are generally mapped against Ordnance Survey MasterMap.

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

https://www.gov.uk/how-to-access-natural-englands-maps-and-data

name: Natural England Publications, Maps and Data

function: information

Unique resource identifier

code

7145fe73-da0a-43bb-b4bc-a36d376b6122

codeSpace

unknown

Dataset language

eng

Spatial reference system

code identifying the spatial reference system

http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/27700

Additional information source

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/protected-areas-sites-of-special-scientific-interest

Classification of spatial data and services

Topic category

environment

planningCadastre

oceans

farming

Keywords

Keyword set

keyword value

earth_science

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

revision

effective date

2010-01-13

Keyword set

keyword value

Protected sites

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2008-06-01

Geographic location

West bounding longitude

-6.41736

East bounding longitude

2.05827

North bounding latitude

55.7447

South bounding latitude

49.8625

Vertical extent information

Minimum value

0

Maximum value

0

Coordinate reference system

authority code

code identifying the coordinate reference system

http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/5701

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

Begin position

1970-01-01

End position

2099-12-31

Dataset reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2016-03-01

Frequency of update

monthly

Quality and validity

Lineage

All data is captured to the Ordnance Survey National Grid sometimes called the British National Grid. OS MasterMap Topographic Layer ? produced and supplied by Ordnance Survey from data at 1:1250, 1:2500 and 1:10000 surveying and mapping standards - is used as the primary source. Other sources ? acquired internally and from external suppliers - may include aerial imagery at resolutions ranging from 25cm to 2m, Ordnance Survey 1:10000 raster images, historical OS mapping, charts and chart data from UK Hydrographic Office and other sources, scanned images of paper designation mapping (mostly originally produced at 1:10560 or 1:10000 scales), GPS and other surveyed data, and absolute coordinates. The data was first captured against an August 2002 cut of OS MasterMap Topography. Natural England has successfully uploaded an up-to-date version of OS MasterMap Topographic Layer. However, we have not yet updated our designated data holding to this new version of MasterMap. This should occur in the near future, when we will simultaneously apply positional accuracy improvement (PAI) to our data.

Conformity

Conformity report

specification

title

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

1981-12-31

degree

true

explanation

The data conforms to all aspects of the specification.

Data format

name of format

MapInfo tab

version of format

MapInfo Professional 9.5

Constraints related to access and use

Constraint set

Limitations on public access

There are no public access constraints to this data. Use of this data is subject to the licence identified.

Constraint set

Use constraints

Responsible organisations

Responsible party

contact position

Enquiries

organisation name

Natural England

full postal address

Foss House, Kings Pool, 1-2 Peasholme Green

York

YO1 7PX

United Kingdom

telephone number

0300 060 3900

email address

enquiries@naturalengland.org.uk

web address

https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/natural-england

responsible party role

owner

Metadata on metadata

Metadata point of contact

contact position

Data Manager

organisation name

Natural England

full postal address

Foss House, Kings Pool, 1-2 Peasholme Green

York

YO1 7PX

United Kingdom

email address

NaturalenglandGIDatamanagers@naturalengland.org.uk

web address

https://www.gov.uk/how-to-access-natural-englands-maps-and-data

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata date

2016-03-01T11:55:33

Metadata language