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Water Quality Exemptions

The Environmental Permitting Regulations contains exemptions from needing an environmental permit for certain water discharges and groundwater activities. Exemptions cover the discharge of treated...

Water Framework Directive (WFD) Risk Assessments for Cycle 2

This dataset contains risk assessment data produced to support the cycle 2 river basin management plans. It contains - Lake water bodies - River water bodies - Transitional water bodies...

Woodland Dedications

The Dedication woodland Scheme (Basis I and II) was introduced in 1947 in order to encourage landowners to retain their land in forestry and to introduce good forestry practice. Basis III was...

End of life vehicles - Authorised Treatment Facilities - Public Register

Permitted End-of-Life Vehicle (ELV) sites that can meet the required standards in the ELV Directive for de-polluting vehicles. Authorised sites can have access to the DVLA Certificate of...

Open Access - Registered Common Land (CRoW Act)

The CRoW Act provides for public access on foot to certain types of land, amends the law relating to public rights of way, increases measures for the management and protection for Sites of Special...

UK Water Quality Sampling Harmonised Monitoring Scheme Summary Data

The Historic UK Water Quality Sampling Harmonised Monitoring Scheme (HMS) data contains statistics for a series of water quality sampling sites including annual means, maximum and minimum values...

Open Access - Other Dedicated Land (CRoW Act)

Dataset showing the area of land that has been dedicated under Section 16 of the CRoW Act by organisations/individuals other than Natural Resources Wales (NRW). When using this data to understand...

Water Framework Directive (WFD) River Basin Districts Cycle 2

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

Phase 2 Upland Vegetation Surveys of Wales (1999 - 2008)

This dataset contains both the non-spatial and spatial (GIS) outputs from a vegetation surveys of upland Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSIs) in Wales to National Vegetation Classification...

Historic General Quality Assessment (GQA) Headline Indicators of Water Courses

The General Quality Assessment (GQA) Headline Indicator scheme or GQAHI (previously known as GQA) was the national indicator for water quality in rivers and canals. It was designed to provide an...

Water Framework Directive (WFD) Lake Waterbodies Cycle 1

Water Framework Directive (WFD) Lake Waterbodies Cycle 1 (2008 -2013) is a polygon Shapefile dataset containing Water Framework Directive (WFD) attributes that have been collated as defined for the...

Tranquillity and Place: Visually Tranquil Areas

A nationally consistent terrestrial Tranquillity & Place resource that identifies visually tranquil areas for use as an evidence base to inform policy intent, practice and provision for...

Flood Defences without Standardised Attributes

This dataset shows flood defences that have been built to protect against flooding from rivers and the sea. The defences shown provide different levels of flood protection and this is recognised in...

Biogenetic Reserves

This is a spatial dataset containing the boundaries of Biogenetic Reserves in Wales. Biogenetic Reserves aim to conserve European flora, fauna and natural areas especially heathlands and dry...

Spatial Flood Defences with Standardised Attributes

This dataset shows flood defences that have been built to protect against flooding from rivers and the sea. The defences shown provide different levels of flood protection and this is recognised in...

Natural Resources Wales (NRW) Forest Roads and Planned Forest Roads

Forest Roads is compiled from Forest road network data managed by Forestry Civil Engineering.

Phase 2 Saltmarsh Survey of Wales

Coastal saltmarshes in the UK comprise of the upper, vegetated portions of intertidal mudflats, lying approximately between mean high water neap tides and mean high water spring tides. Saltmarshes...

River Wye catchment (Wales) species rich grassland creation opportunity maps

A detailed GIS analysis of land use, Phase 1 habitats, National Vegetation Classification (NVC) community data, soils and designated sites for the River Wye catchment within the NRW mid-Wales...

Seabirds at Sea Evidence Base

GIS layers showing the abundance and distribution of seabirds in welsh waters. The datasets consists of the raw data showing observations of all seabirds and derived grids showing the density of...

Shoreline Management Plan and Coastal Erosion

The datasets shows the spatial coastal baseline which is split into 'frontages'. These are defined as lengths of coast with consistent characteristics based on the cliff behaviour characteristics...