Identification

Title

Water Environment (Water Framework Directive) shellfish water protected areas in England

Alternative title(s)

Shellfish Water Protected Areas Designation boundaries

Abstract

This dataset contains the Water Environment (Water Framework Directive) (England and Wales) Regulations 2017 shellfish water protected area designations in England. These are waters designated by the Secretary of State as protected areas under the Water Framework Regulations in order to protect or develop economically significant shellfish production. The polygons are based on Ordnance Survey tidal water open data as source base data with boundary extents as originally described in the schedule to the Shellfish Waters (England) Notice 2011 (from the (now repealed) Surface Waters (Shellfish) (Classifications) Regulations 1997). Agreed changes to shellfish water protected area designations made subsequently, including the most recent review which was undertaken arising from the 2015 Designation Review for the updated River Basin Management Plans, have also been incorporated. Attribution statement: © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2017. All rights reserved. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right (2017)

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

https://environment.data.gov.uk/spatialdata/water-environment-wfd-shellfish-water-protected-areas/wms

protocol: OGC:WMS

name: WFD_shellfish_water_protected_areas_England_WMS

description: Water Environment (Water Framework Directive) shellfish water protected areas in England WMS

https://environment.data.gov.uk/spatialdata/water-environment-wfd-shellfish-water-protected-areas/wfs

protocol: OGC:WFS

name: WFD_shellfish_water_protected_areas_England_WFS

description: Water Environment (Water Framework Directive) shellfish water protected areas in England WFS

https://environment.data.gov.uk/DefraDataDownload/?mapService=EA/WaterEnvironmentWFDShellfishWaterProtectedAreasEngland&mode=spatial

protocol: DSP:ESRI

name: WFD_shellfish_water_protected_areas_England_download

description: Water Environment (Water Framework Directive) shellfish water protected areas in England download

https://support.environment.data.gov.uk/hc/en-gb

protocol: http:

name: DSP_CUSTOMER_FORUM

description: Defra Data Services Platform Customer Forum

https://environment.data.gov.uk/arcgis/rest/services/EA/WaterEnvironmentWFDShellfishWaterProtectedAreasEngland/MapServer

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

name: Water_Environment_Water_Framework_Directive_shellfish_water_protected_areas_in_England_ESRI_REST_Endpoint

description: Water Environment (Water Framework Directive) shellfish water protected areas in England - ESRI REST Endpoint

https://environment.data.gov.uk/arcgis/rest/services/EA/WaterEnvironmentWFDShellfishWaterProtectedAreasEngland/FeatureServer

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

name: Water_Environment_(Water_Framework_Directive)_shellfish_water_protected_areas_in_England_ESRI_REST_Feature_Server_Endpoint

description: Water Environment (Water Framework Directive) shellfish water protected areas in England ESRI REST Feature Server Endpoint

Unique resource identifier

code

e0c64fdb-2502-4efd-b98b-243f70d8e53e

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

Shellfish Waters

Protected Areas

WFD

Geographic location

West bounding longitude

-6.236

East bounding longitude

2.072

North bounding latitude

55.816

South bounding latitude

49.943

Extent

Extent group

authority code

code identifying the extent

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

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

Begin position

End position

Dataset reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2017-03-21

date type

revision

effective date

2020-06-05

Frequency of update

asNeeded

Quality and validity

Lineage

The polygons were created using the mean high water boundary (OS_tidal_water shapefile) from the Ordnance Survey OS Terrain 50 open data dataset (downloaded November 2016) as source base data with boundary extents as originally described in the schedule to the Shellfish Waters (England) Notice 2011 (from the (now repealed) Surface Waters (Shellfish) (Classifications) Regulations 1997 Waters Directive). Agreed changes to shellfish water protected area designations (2015 Designation Review) were also incorporated. The resulting polygons underwent a quality assurance exercise and minor amendments were made using aerial photography from the Environment Agency archives captured during surveys.

Conformity

Data format

name of format

Open format | Shapefile (SHP)

version of format

1

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

Environment Agency

email address

DSPcustomerforum@environment-agency.gov.uk

web address

https://support.environment.data.gov.uk/hc/en-gb

description: Defra Data Services Forum

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata on metadata

Metadata point of contact

organisation name

Environment Agency

email address

metadata@environment-agency.gov.uk

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata date

2020-09-17

Metadata language