Identification

Title

Priority Habitats Inventory (England)

Alternative title(s)

Abstract

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].

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

https://environment.data.gov.uk/api/file/download?fileDataSetId=d30e3fa2-5ca6-4851-b19d-1429ad9d84e0&fileName=Attribute Metadata - Priority Habitats Inventory.pdf

protocol: http

description: Attribute Metadata - Priority Habitats Inventory.pdf download on Defra Data Services Platform

https://environment.data.gov.uk/api/file/download?fileDataSetId=d30e3fa2-5ca6-4851-b19d-1429ad9d84e0&fileName=Open Government Licence.url

protocol: http

description: Open Government Licence.url download on Defra Data Services Platform

https://environment.data.gov.uk/api/file/download?fileDataSetId=d30e3fa2-5ca6-4851-b19d-1429ad9d84e0&fileName=PHI.lyr

protocol: http

description: PHI.lyr download on Defra Data Services Platform

https://environment.data.gov.uk/api/file/download?fileDataSetId=d30e3fa2-5ca6-4851-b19d-1429ad9d84e0&fileName=Spatial Metadata - Priority Habitats Inventory.pdf

protocol: http

description: Spatial Metadata - Priority Habitats Inventory.pdf download on Defra Data Services Platform

https://environment.data.gov.uk/api/file/download?fileDataSetId=d30e3fa2-5ca6-4851-b19d-1429ad9d84e0&fileName=User Guide for Natural England's Priority Habitat Inventory v3.0 Nov2022.pdf

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

https://environment.data.gov.uk/arcgis/rest/services/NE/PriorityHabitatInventoryEngland/FeatureServer

protocol: http

description: Priority HabitatsInventory (England) ESRI REST Feature Server Endpoint

https://environment.data.gov.uk/spatialdata/priority-habitat-inventory-england/wms

protocol: http

description: Priority Habitats Inventory (England) Web Map Service

https://environment.data.gov.uk/spatialdata/priority-habitat-inventory-england/wfs

protocol: http

description: Priority Habitats Inventory (England) Web Feature Service

https://environment.data.gov.uk/explore/92b43165-0dd0-4e69-a712-1e49bb5aa0d0?download=true

protocol: http

description: Download data by area of interest

https://environment.data.gov.uk/arcgis/rest/services/NE/PriorityHabitatInventoryEngland/MapServer

protocol: http

description: Priority Habitats Inventory (England) ESRI REST Map Server Endpoint

https://naturalengland-defra.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/Defra::priority-habitats-inventory-england/about

protocol: http

description: Natural England Open Data Geoportal page

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

landscape

Natural England

ecology

habitats

environment

Keyword set

keyword value

Habitats and biotopes

originating controlled vocabulary

title

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2008-06-01

Geographic location

West bounding longitude

-8.655

East bounding longitude

1.79

North bounding latitude

60.85

South bounding latitude

49.9

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

Begin position

2014-11-24

End position

2099-12-31

Dataset reference date

date type

creation

effective date

2014-11-24

date type

revision

effective date

2024-01-15

Frequency of update

notPlanned

Quality and validity

Lineage

All data is captured to the British National Grid using the OS MasterMap Topographic Layer.

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

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/)

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

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

2024-02-19

Metadata language

eng