Marine Conservation Zones (England)
These are the boundaries for Marine Conservation Zones, and Highly Protected Marine Areas, which are both designated under the Marine and Coastal Access Act (2009). They protect nationally important marine wildlife, habitats, geology and geomorphology. Sites were selected in English inshore and offshore waters to protect not just rare and threatened marine wildlife and habitats, but also the range of biodiversity across biogeographic regions. The Highly Protected Marine Areas project followed the recommendations of the Benyon review in 2022 and sites were selected to achieve the full recovery of the marine ecosystem within the site, including the biotic and abiotic elements of the seabed, water column and surface of the sea. This data layer is composed of boundaries for both Marine Conservation Zones and Highly Protected Marine Areas. These boundary polygons were developed by Natural England and JNCC through a process which involved a number of different stages including the gathering and assessment of evidence, site proposals, consultations and refining of boundaries before final site designation. The boundaries have been drawn using the wide variety of evidence which went into this process. Where inshore sites follow the shoreline, they are usually drawn to follow OS Mastermap MHW. Attribution statement: © Natural England copyright. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right [year].
dataset
protocol: http
name: Data_Gov_UK_Metadata_Marine_Conservation_Zones.url
description: Data_Gov_UK_Metadata_Marine_Conservation_Zones.url download on Defra Data Services Platform
protocol: http
name: Marine Conservation Zones - Attribute Metadata.pdf
description: Marine Conservation Zones - Attribute Metadata.pdf download on Defra Data Services Platform
protocol: http
name: Marine_Conservation_Zones_England.lyr
description: Marine_Conservation_Zones_England.lyr download on Defra Data Services Platform
protocol: http
name: Marine_Conservation_Zone_Designations.url
description: Marine_Conservation_Zone_Designations.url download on Defra Data Services Platform
protocol: http
name: Marine_Conservation_Zone_Factsheets.url
description: Marine_Conservation_Zone_Factsheets.url 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: Open_Government_Licence.url
description: Open_Government_Licence.url download on Defra Data Services Platform
https://naturalengland-defra.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/marine-conservation-zones-england
protocol: http
name: ArcGIS Open Dataset record page
description: ArcGIS Open Dataset record page
https://environment.data.gov.uk/explore/c0061c93-d444-481c-a14e-653b8a8e2b1a?download=true
protocol: http
name: MarineConservationZonesEngland_Download
description: Download data by area of interest
https://environment.data.gov.uk/spatialdata/marine-conservation-zones-england/wfs
protocol: http
name: MarineConservationZonesEngland_WFS
description: Marine Conservation Zones (England) WFS
https://environment.data.gov.uk/spatialdata/marine-conservation-zones-england/wms
protocol: http
name: MarineConservationZonesEngland_WMS
description: Marine Conservation Zones (England) WMS
https://environment.data.gov.uk/arcgis/rest/services/NE/MarineConservationZonesEngland/FeatureServer
protocol: http
name: Marine_Conservation_Zones_(England)_ESRI_REST_Feature_Server_Endpoint
description: Marine Conservation Zones (England) ESRI REST Feature Server Endpoint
57ebd6a8-08d0-46c6-9253-547c27854df6
eng
http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/27700
environment
environment
Protected sites
publication
2008-06-01
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3.24301
56.69119
49.86
1970-01-01
2099-12-31
publication
2016-02-13
revision
2023-07-15
notPlanned
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.
Open format | Shapefile (SHP)
10.2.2
Open Government Licence
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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pointOfContact
2023-12-13