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30 x 30 Protected Areas

Publisher
Scottish Government SpatialData.gov.scot
Updated
8 July 2026
Topic
Not set

Summary

An update for 30x30 project. These layer contains all terrestrial, protected area sites that contribute toward Scotland's commitment to protect or conserve 30% of land by 2030. This includes SSSIs, SACs, SPAs, Ramsars, and NNRs. These data have been clipped to OS BoundaryLine and is not dissolved so it can still be identified which areas are designated as what protected area types. Column “PA_Type” in the attribute table can be used for this.This data differs to that which Scotland reports 30x30 progress to, which uses MLWS. Purely geological SSSIs were not included. The protected areas are up to date as of 31/05/2024. OS Boundaryline product information : https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/documents/product-support/user-guide/boundary-line-product-information-v5.0.pdf

Data links

Link Format Preview Updated
GeoJSON (EPSG:4326) ZIP 19/9/2024
Geopackage (EPSG:27700) ZIP 19/9/2024
GML (EPSG:4258) ZIP 19/9/2024
ESRI File geodatabase (EPSG:27700) ZIP 19/9/2024
ESRI Shapefile (EPSG:27700) ZIP 19/9/2024

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Additional information

Source Metadata
XML, HTML
Date added
15 August 2024
Harvest GUID
54dd8483-899c-4517-8278-da520cb3eefb
Extent (Latitude)
61.8049° to 54.4221°
Extent (Longitude)
-9.322° to -0.0935°
Spatial reference system
urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::27700
Dataset reference date (creation)
2024-06-14
Dataset reference date (publication)
2024-08-14
Frequency of update
asNeeded
Responsible party
NatureScot (pointOfContact)
ISO 19139 resource type
dataset
Metadata language
eng

Contact

data_supply@nature.scot

Licence information

Available under the Open Government Licence http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/