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National LIDAR Programme

Published by:: Environment Agency
Last updated:: 12 September 2025

The Environment Agency National LIDAR Programme provides accurate elevation data at 1m spatial resolution for all of England. In 2017 we divided the country into 302 survey blocks covering all of...

Sensitive Areas - Eutrophic Coastal

Published by:: Environment Agency
Last updated:: 12 September 2025

This record is for Approval for Access product AfA249-3 Sensitive Areas – Eutrophic Coastal. This dataset consists of 3 shapefiles showing the extent of Urban Wastewater Treatment Directive...

WFD Groundwater Operational Catchments Cycle 2

Published by:: Environment Agency
Last updated:: 12 September 2025

WFD (Water Framework Directive) Groundwater Operational Catchments (Cycle 2) show how WFD work is grouped geographically for practical management purposes. The Groundwater operational catchments...

Historical oyster habitat and fisheries in English coastal waters

Published by:: Environment Agency
Last updated:: 12 September 2025

This dataset collates primary and secondary written sources from government, scientific, maritime and popular media accounts that mention the use and presence of the native oyster, Ostrea edulis,...

Association of Drainage Authorities: Administrative Boundaries - Internal Drainage Districts in England

Published by:: Environment Agency
Last updated:: 12 September 2025

PLEASE NOTE: This data has been published by the Environment Agency on behalf of the Association of Drainage Authorities. © Association of Drainage Authorities copyright and/or database right 2020....

Spatial prioritisation of catchments suitable for using Natural Flood Management

Published by:: Environment Agency
Last updated:: 12 September 2025

This dataset concerns the spatial prioritisation of catchments suitable for reducing flood risk using Natural Flood Management or land use management and land use change within the Environmental...

Historic Saltmarsh Extent 1860

Published by:: Environment Agency
Last updated:: 12 September 2025

Remotely Sensed Flood Estimates

Published by:: Environment Agency
Last updated:: 12 September 2025

The estimated flood extent is an un-validated raw product often processed rapidly to share with category one partners during an incident. You must refer to the limitations of the data when using...

Hydrometric Monitoring Points

Published by:: Environment Agency
Last updated:: 12 September 2025

This record is for Approval for Access product AfA216. This dataset shows the (approximate) location of all current sites used for monitoring water quantity, including groundwater, rivers, lakes,...

WFD River Basin Districts Cycle 1

Published by:: Environment Agency
Last updated:: 12 September 2025

WFD River Basin Districts is a polygon Shapefile dataset containing attributes that have been defined for the implementation of the Water Framework Directive (WFD). as '…the area of land and sea,...

Inventory of Closed Mining Waste Facilities

Published by:: Environment Agency
Last updated:: 12 September 2025

This metadata record is for Approval for Access product AfA260. The European Mining Waste Directive (2006/21/EC) requires Member States to create an inventory of closed or abandoned mine waste...

Sensitive Areas - Nitrates

Published by:: Environment Agency
Last updated:: 12 September 2025

This record is for Approval for Access product AfA251. This dataset is a shapefile showing the extent of UWWTD sensitive areas (nitrate). The Urban Wastewater Treatment Directive (91/271/EEC)...

CASI and LIDAR Habitat Map

Published by:: Environment Agency
Last updated:: 12 September 2025

This record is for Approval for Access product AfA439. A habitat map derived from airborne data, specifically CASI (Compact Airborne Spectrographic Imager) and LIDAR (Light Detection and Ranging)...

Indicative Flood Risk Areas - People Sensitivity Grid

Published by:: Environment Agency
Last updated:: 12 September 2025

PLEASE NOTE: this dataset has been retired. It has been superseded by data for Flood Risk Areas: https://environment.data.gov.uk/dataset/f3d63ec5-a21a-49fb-803a-0fa0fb7238b6 The Indicative Flood...

Groundwater Management Units coloured according to water resource availability colours

Published by:: Environment Agency
Last updated:: 12 September 2025

Shapefile of groundwater management units which are a break down of groundwater bodies used for local groundwater availability communication in Abstraction licensing strategies. Coloured according...

Vertical Aerial Photography

Published by:: Environment Agency
Last updated:: 12 September 2025

Vertical aerial photography is an airborne mapping technique, which uses a high-resolution camera mounted vertically underneath the aircraft to capture reflected light in the red, green, blue and...

River Arun Internal Drainage District

Published by:: Environment Agency
Last updated:: 12 September 2025

Internal drainage boards (IDB) are public bodies that manage water levels in some areas where there is a special need for drainage. These areas are known as internal drainage districts (IDD). The...

Multibeam Bathymetry

Published by:: Environment Agency
Last updated:: 12 September 2025

Multibeam echo sounders, for Bathymetric survey, use sonar pulses to measure the distance between the survey vessel and the seabed. This instrument collects point data at a resolution of 25cm or...

WFD River Basin Districts Cycle 2

Published by:: Environment Agency
Last updated:: 12 September 2025

WFD River Basin Districts is a polygon Shapefile dataset containing attributes that have been collated as defined for the implementation of the Water Framework Directive (WFD). Article 2, clause 2...

Indicative Flood Risk Areas - Clusters

Published by:: Environment Agency
Last updated:: 12 September 2025