Identification

Title

Natural England National Priority Focus Areas

Alternative title(s)

National Priority Focus Areas

Abstract

Natural England's focus areas for each Area Team. The focus areas are typically where Natural England (NE) are targeting more than one delivery programme. So these areas are the key opportunities for Natural England to integrate its delivery to achieve better outcomes. The focus areas are the best picture NE have about where we need to concentrate effort in order to achieve our biodiversity, landscape, access, engagement and other land management objectives. They show where we currently focus more effort. The focus areas are also the best overview we have of future priorities, but this is not yet a perfect picture. We expect this map to evolve. The focus areas are not intended to represent the views or priorities of all the organisations which contribute to natural environment outcomes. However, we have taken account of other Defra partners‟ delivery programmes and also those of some other key partners. We want to have more discussions with partners and stakeholders to hear whether our local delivery offer makes sense in the context of what we are all jointly trying to achieve. The focus areas are a broad guide as to where we anticipate focusing more effort in future; but it should not be interpreted too precisely. We can adjust boundaries locally as makes sense to our delivery programmes or customers. The focus areas capture the majority of our geographically targeted work and especially where different programmes overlap, but each programme will continue to target some of its delivery elsewhere. We want to focus proportionately more of our resource in focus areas and Nature Improvement Areas (NIAs) over time, to maximise the benefits of our limited resource, and make a big difference in certain places, rather than not enough difference everywhere. This is a strong steer, but not a moratorium on projects that are outside focus areas. Small scale investment outside the focus areas, which act as a catalyst or lever for others‟ investment, may be legitimate. We have limited this approach to our terrestrial delivery at the moment. However, we have included many coastal stretches and have taken particular account of where the coast abuts a potential marine designation, to encourage integration with our marine work and to take account of the links with offshore processes such as sediment flow. While the current priority for marine work is the site designation process, we would aspire to develop marine spatial priorities over time. 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/natural-england-national-priority-focus-areas

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

name: ArcGIS Open Dataset record page

description: ArcGIS Open Dataset record page

https://environment.data.gov.uk/spatialdata/natural-england-national-priority-focus-areas/wms

protocol: OGC:WMS

name: Natural England National Priority Focus Areas WMS

description: Natural England National Priority Focus Areas WMS

https://environment.data.gov.uk/DefraDataDownload/?mapService=NE/NaturalEnglandNationalPriorityFocusAreas&mode=spatial

protocol: DSP:ESRI

name: Natural England National Priority Focus Areas Download

description: Natural England National Priority Focus Areas Download

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

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

name: Natural England National Priority Focus Areas ESRI REST Map Server Endpoint

description: Natural England National Priority Focus Areas ESRI REST Map Server Endpoint

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

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

name: Natural England National Priority Focus Areas ESRI REST Feature Server Endpoint

description: Natural England National Priority Focus Areas ESRI REST Feature Server Endpoint

https://environment.data.gov.uk/spatialdata/natural-england-national-priority-focus-areas/wfs

protocol: OGC:WFS

name: Natural England National Priority Focus Areas WFS

description: Natural England National Priority Focus Areas WFS

Unique resource identifier

code

f7932e02-0396-41dc-8106-f7dcd5e539d3

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

boundaries

Keywords

Keyword set

keyword value

OpenData

Keyword set

keyword value

Administrative units

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

-7.55859375

East bounding longitude

2.98828125

North bounding latitude

56.46249048

South bounding latitude

49.83798245

Extent

Extent group

authority code

code identifying the extent

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

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

Begin position

2016-05-05

End position

2019-01-15

Dataset reference date

date type

creation

effective date

2016-05-05

date type

publication

effective date

2019-01-15

Frequency of update

notPlanned

Quality and validity

Lineage

Data and labels were derived from maps of focus areas produced by Area Teams for 'It's In Our Nature'. Some data was created in consultation with local teams. Most boundaries are derived from AONBs, National Parks, SSSIs/SACs, NCAs, and NNR's and is therefore based on Ordnance Survey data.

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

2022-07-07

Metadata language

eng