Identification

Title

Marine Conservation Zones (England)

Alternative title(s)

MCZ

Abstract

These are the boundaries for designated and recommended Marine Conservation Zones including the new tranche 3 consultation boundaries. Marine Conservation Zones are designated under the Marine and Coastal Access Act (2009). They protect nationally important marine wildlife, habitats, geology and geomorphology. The Marine Conservation Zone Project concerns the selection of MCZs in English inshore waters and offshore waters next to England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Sites will be selected to protect not just the rare and threatened, but the range of marine wildlife. Attribution statement: Attribution statement: © Natural England copyright. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right [year].

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

https://naturalengland-defra.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/marine-conservation-zones-england

protocol: WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link

name: ArcGIS Open Dataset record page

description: ArcGIS Open Dataset record page

https://environment.data.gov.uk/DefraDataDownload/?mapService=NE/MarineConservationZonesEngland&Mode=spatial

protocol: DSP:ESRI

name: MarineConservationZonesEngland_Download

description: Marine Conservation Zones (England) Download

https://environment.data.gov.uk/spatialdata/marine-conservation-zones-england/wfs

protocol: WFS

name: MarineConservationZonesEngland_WFS

description: Marine Conservation Zones (England) WFS

https://environment.data.gov.uk/spatialdata/marine-conservation-zones-england/wms

protocol: WMS

name: MarineConservationZonesEngland_WMS

description: Marine Conservation Zones (England) WMS

Unique resource identifier

code

57ebd6a8-08d0-46c6-9253-547c27854df6

codeSpace

Dataset language

eng

Spatial reference system

code identifying the spatial reference system

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

Classification of spatial data and services

Topic category

environment

Keywords

Keyword set

keyword value

OpenData

Keyword set

keyword value

NEbatch4

Keyword set

keyword value

Protected sites

originating controlled vocabulary

title

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2018-07-25

Geographic location

West bounding longitude

-11.39317

East bounding longitude

3.24301

North bounding latitude

56.69119

South bounding latitude

49.86

Extent

Extent group

authority code

code identifying the extent

http://data.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/doc/country/england

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

Begin position

1970-01-01

End position

2099-12-31

Dataset reference date

date type

creation

effective date

1970-01-01

date type

publication

effective date

2016-02-13

date type

revision

effective date

2019-02-15

Frequency of update

notPlanned

Quality and validity

Lineage

This is a marine habitat mapping dataset, created using remote sensing data and groundtruthing data. Boundaries between habitats were derived from remote sensing such as aerial photography and acoustic data collection, then groundtruthed using a number of direct or indirect observations. Some extrapolation of the remote sensing may have occurred during production.

Conformity

Data format

name of format

Open format | Shapefile (SHP)

version of format

10.2.2

Constraints related to access and use

Constraint set

Use constraints

Open Government Licence

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.

Responsible organisations

Responsible party

organisation name

Natural England

email address

data.services@naturalengland.org.uk

web address

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

description: Natural England Website

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata on metadata

Metadata point of contact

organisation name

Natural England

email address

data.services@naturalengland.org.uk

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata date

2019-02-19

Metadata language

eng