AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
England Woodland Creation Full Sensitivity Map v3.0

The Forestry Commission has developed a series of sensitivity maps, based on nationally available and consistent datasets, to indicate where there are likely to be fewer sensitivities to woodland creation.

These maps will help to indicate to landowners whether there is likely to be potential to establish new woodland on their land, and where there may be sensitivities that would preclude woodland creation.

The maps do not indicate that, where there is a low sensitivity to new woodland being created, that planting will be agreed by the Forestry Commission, the regulator for woodland and forestry projects in England. However, the low sensitivity areas have fewest identified constraints to address, and it should be easier to agree creating new woodland here than in other areas. 

Likewise, creation of new woodland, particularly of native woodland, may be appropriate outside ‘low sensitivity’ areas, but the appropriateness of proposals in these areas will again be determined by the Forestry Commission, including through responding to the views of Natural England, Environment Agency, Historic England, the Local Authority and other stakeholders, where relevant.

The Sensitivity Maps exclude all land that is unsuitable for planting, including urban areas, existing (and assumed) woodland and habitats that are considered too wet, too rocky, and too salty to support the growth of trees. This is achieved through restricting the Sensitivity Maps to the following land covers, based on the most recent update of Landcover Map:

Acid grassland
Arable and horticulture
Calcareous grassland
Heather
Heather grassland
Improved grassland
Neutral grassland


The spatial datasets and individual layers of those datasets that define land as unsuitable and low, medium, or high sensitivity for woodland creation in the Full Sensitivity Map version 3.0, the Low Sensitivity Map and their variants are set out in the document here:

www.gov.uk/guidance/a-guide-to-forestry-commissions-sensitivity-maps-for-woodland-creation


Attributes:

‘Sensitivity’ = the sensitivity to woodland creation level the land has been assigned.

‘Area (Hectares)’ = the area in hectares of the polygon.

 

Lineage:

This is version 3.0 of these layers, having gone through several iterations where new data inputs were added and changes made to how these were treated as sensitivities for woodland creation. These are the first versions of the layers to be published as Open Data.

Tags: Creation, GB, Opportunity, Protected sites, Sensitivity, Species distribution, Woodland, afforestation, environment, forestry, land cover, planting, soil, wildlife protection
Organization: Forestry Commission
England sawmills by region: 1994 to 2014 (final)

England sawmills for 1994 to 2014 (final) by region. 

The data cover number of mills, consumption of softwood and production of sawn softwood and are broken down by:

- English region.

The dataset is released twice a year: 
Provisional figures are available in May to support the National Statistics release UK Wood Production and Trade; 
Final figures are available in September to support the National Statistics releases Forestry Statistics and Forestry Facts & Figures.

Tags: environment, statistics, timber
Organization: Forestry Commission
Community Forest Species Trial (Bagworth Heath 1999)

A series of species trials were set up to investigate the establishment and early growth (up to 14 years old) of 44 native and non-native tree species on a variety of different site types in lowland Britain.
On good quality lowland afforestation sites, Platanus x hispanica (London plane) established and grew more successfully than the native trees tested, and may be an example of a species that could theoretically be established in anticipation of future climate change. Experiments on a variety of community woodland sites indicated that a range of exotic species, such as X Cupressocyparis
leylandii (Leyland cypress), may have the potential for establishing a woodland cover on poorly restored land where few other trees would grow. However, on less challenging, better restored sites, a wide range of native species also grew successfully. Further long-term and larger scale trials on a wider variety of sites are required to confirm the potential of the species tested for British conditions.
The results from these experiments also showed that relative growth rates of different species can vary through time, highlighting the danger in making premature judgements about species suitability based solely on very early tree growth.
See also: Willoughby, I., Stokes, V., Poole, J., White, J.E.J. and Hodge, S.J. (2007) The potential of 44 native and non-native species for woodland creation on a range of contrasting sites in lowland Britain. Forestry, 80 (5): 531-553. Attribution statement: If you use this data you must cite Willoughby, I., Stokes, V., Poole, J., White, J.E.J. and Hodge, S.J. (2007) The potential of 44 native and non-native species for woodland creation on a range of contrasting sites in lowland Britain. Forestry, 80 (5): 531-553.

Tags: England, biodiversity, environment, introduction of plant species, research, science, survival, tree
Organization: Forestry Commission
Chalara Fraxinea Survey England 10K Grid 2013-2015

10K Grid of UK showing areas where surveys have been carried out under contract for Chalara Fraxinea.  Attributes give the year(s) surveys have been carried out and the year the disease was found and confirmed.

Surveyed - 'Y' indicates surveys have been conducted in grid square

Svy2015 - 'Y' indicates survey was carried out in grid square in 2015

Svy2014 - 'Y' indicates survey was carried out in grid square in 2014

Svy2013 - 'Y' indicates survey was carried out in grid square in 2013

YrFound - Gives the year that the surveys first found a positive result in grid square Attribution statement: Contains OS data © Crown copyright [and database right] [year].

Tags: England, Species distribution, Tree Health, environment, plant disease, survey
Organization: Forestry Commission
Waste Infrastructure Delivery Programme (WIDP) Infrastructure Facilities List (IFL)

This data set lists residual waste treatment facilities in England that are tracked by WIDP for the purposes of assessing treatment capacity. The list includes operational facilities and is informed by WIDP’s monitoring of its own portfolio of PFI facilities, as well as other public domain information concerning PPP and Merchant facilities. Data reflects the status of facilities up to and including 31 December 2019.

Organization: Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Understanding impacts of changes in artificial lighting regimes on moths

Report contains data that can be used under Open Government Licence.

Main report and appendices contain tables of data, infographics and maps. Some maps have separate copyright statement. 

The aim of this project is to investigate the impacts of changing street light types on moth communities. Moths comprise a substantial part of Britain’s biodiversity and are important in food chains and play a role in pollination. Defra has committed, both nationally and internationally, to halt the overall loss of biodiversity by 2020. In 2009 the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution (RCEP) published a review of the environmental impacts of artificial light, which concluded that there was a paucity of information on the ecological impact of artificial lighting and that further studies were needed on the likely impacts of broader wavelength technologies that are being more widely introduced. Defra’s commitment to carry out research in this area was stated in the government response to the RCEP review.

Outputs will form part of the evidence base for those making decisions regarding road lighting regimes. The Department for Transport has nominated the Highways Agency to represent their interests on the Project Steering Group.

Organization: Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
The impacts of street lighting on biodiversity

Report contains data that can be used under Open Government Licence.

Main report and appendices all contain data and maps.

The aim of this project is to assess, through landscape-scale approaches, the impact of alternative road lighting schemes on biodiversity. Defra has committed both nationally and internationally, to halt the overall loss of biodiversity by 2020. In 2009 the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution (RCEP) published a review of the environmental impacts of artificial light, which concluded that there was a paucity of information on the ecological impact of artificial lighting and that further studies were needed on the likely impacts of broader wavelength technologies that are being more widely introduced. Defra’s commitment to carry out research in this area was stated in the government response to the RCEP review.
Outputs will form part of the evidence base for those making decisions regarding road lighting regimes. The Department for Transport has nominated the Highways Agency to represent their interests on the Project Steering Group.

Organization: Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Freshwater Fish Directive Historic Compliance 1992-2012

This dataset provides the summary statistics associated with the Freshwater Fish Directive compliance assessments that have been carried out since 1992. Where a sample point has failed an Environmental Quality Standard for one or more chemical substance reported under the directive this is also shown. Attribution statement: © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2016. All rights reserved.

Tags: inlandWaters, surface water
Organization: Environment Agency
Flood and Coastal Risk Management 6 Year Capital Programme 2021 - 2027

This is the Flood and Coastal Erosion Risk Management Programme of Work. Consented by Regional Flood & Coastal Committees and updated yearly in March. The Programme tab provides information on the latest flood and coastal erosion risk management (FCERM) programme.  
It is in a map form with a downloadable API as well as a downloadable CSV.
It contains locations information and minimal but basic cost and better protected homes data. Attribution statement: © Environment Agency copyright and/or database rights 2018. All rights reserved.

Tags: Maintenance, Technical, coastal erosion, environment, flood
Organization: Environment Agency
September 2022 - North Coast Post-Storm Recovery Survey - Digital Surface Model

<div style='text-align:Left; font-size:12pt;'><p>Fugro were commissioned to undertake a post storm LiDAR survey of the soft sedimentary areas along the north coast of Northern Ireland in March 2022. This survey was to cover the following areas: Curran Strand, Portrush East Strand, Portstewart Strand and Downhill Beach to Magilligan.</p><div style='text-align:Left; font-size:12pt;'><p>This project was commissioned following the successive storm events during February and March 2022 (Storm Dudley, Storm Eunice and Storm Franklin) which did considerable damage to the sandy beaches along the North Coast. The objective of this survey was to ascertain change which has occurred along these soft sediment coastlines at the north coast since the baseline survey, which was acquired in 2021.</p><div style='text-align:Left; font-size:12pt;'><p>Data was provided in the same format as the topographic LiDAR data collected in the Northern Ireland 3-Dimensional Coastal Survey to allow changes between these two datasets to be ascertained.</p><div style='text-align:Left; font-size:12pt;'><p>Later in the year Fugro were commissioned to undertake a second LiDAR survey of the north coast from White Rocks to Magilligan in September 2022. The aim of this repeat survey was to ascertain the levels of recovery along the soft sediment coastlines since March 2022.</p><div style='text-align:Left; font-size:12pt;'><p>As with the initial survey undertaken by Fugro this topographic LiDAR survey collected data from the intertidal area to 10m inland for the same soft sediment areas along the north coast, with data being acquired at 0.5m resolution. The survey was quite restrictive when it could be flown: it had to be 2 hours either side of Low Water, during clear conditions below 6000ft, sun had to be at a suitable angle to capture imagery and as photography was being captured the survey could only be flown during day light hours. </p><div style='text-align:Left; font-size:12pt;'><p>All data collected was to be directly comparable with the data collected in the initial post storm Survey undertaken, as this would help us to understand and accurately quantify how our soft, sedimentary coastlines respond and recover from extreme storm events.</p><div style='text-align:Left; font-size:12pt;'><p>This is the Digital Surface Model that was collected as part of the post-storm recovery survey.<br /></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>

Tags: 3d, Coastal, DSM, Digital Surface Model, Ireland, LiDAR, Northern, Observatory, Post, Recovery, Storm
Organization: OpenDataNI
Agricultural compliance visits Land & Water teams

A list of farm visits conducted to check compliance with a number of environmental regulatory requirements and good practice.  Data is split by historical operational regions/areas.  Discrete river stretches are identified by Hydrometric Catchment.  The principal type of farm operation is shown where recorded.  There is summary information about the complexity of the visit and whether there were any non compliant issues found. Attribution statement: © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2016. All rights reserved.

Tags: environment
Organization: Environment Agency
Action Aims Groups Types Data Standard Controlled List

Action Aims Groups Types Data Standard Controlled List. It specifies a classification system for categorising high level environmental aims and associated activities undertaken to meet those aims. It currently covers Water Land and Biodiversity aims, and in particular those activities to achieve river basin outcomes of preventing deterioration, achieving protected area objectives or achieving water body objectives. Attribution statement: © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2017.

Tags: Measure, control measure, environment, mitigation measure, planning measure, prevention measure, restoration measure
Organization: Environment Agency
Higher Education Graduate Outcomes Statistics: UK, 2022/23

This release is the annual first release of Graduate Outcomes survey data and covers UK higher education providers (HEPs) and further education colleges (FECs) in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Data is collected approximately 15 months after HE course completion.

This bulletin has been produced by Jisc in collaboration with statisticians from the Department for Education, the Office for Students, the Welsh Government, the Scottish Government and the Department for the Economy Northern Ireland. It has been released according to the arrangements approved by the UK Statistics Authority.

Organization: Higher Education Statistics Agency
Flood Risk Activity Exemptions

A flood risk exemption is for work on or near a main river or sea defence that is exempt from needing an environmental permit. You can search for matching registrations by holder name, reference number or location of a registered site.

Registrations are based upon the information provided by the customer. Some basic level validation is undertaken as part of the screening process to check for particularly onerous data (e.g. if the grid reference submitted is nowhere near a water feature). Attribution statement: © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2020. All rights reserved.

Tags: Exemptions, environment
Organization: Environment Agency
Norfolk Public Rights of Way

An interpretation from Norfolks Definitive Map and Statement, which is the legal register of Public Rights of Way (PROW). The data is in line form. The line depicting a right of way only indicates its approximate location and does not define the precise route, centre or edge of the path. The PROW data is essentially a snapshot of that data for a given time, and may not be complete or entirely accurate in terms of attribute information or geographical position. The Definitive Map and Statement should be consulted for the lawful line of each public right of way.

The Metadata document contains the latest data publication date for the downloadable XML/KMZ files.

Organization: Norfolk County Council
North East Mining and Groundwater Constraints Map

The Mining and Groundwater Constraints Map is part of a screening tool which has been created through a partnership between the Environment Agency and the Coal Authority. Its geographical coverage at the current time is limited to the coalfield in North East England. This screening tool seeks to raise awareness of a variety of mining and groundwater constraints in order that sustainable development and drainage systems may be achieved. Attribution statement: © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2017. All rights reserved.

Tags: GIS digital format, Mine water, North East, coal mining, drainage system, environment, groundwater, sustainable development
Organization: Environment Agency
River water body catchments rural urban classification C2

Rural-Urban classification of river water body catchments defined for Cycle 2 (2016-2021) of the Water Framework Directive (WFD). Created to assign WFD project spend to a rural or urban sphere. Attribution statement: © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2018. All rights reserved.

Tags: Statistical units, boundaries, classification, demography, environment, environmental accounting, environmental planning, inlandWaters, land use, policy planning, population distribution, public finance, river, rural, rural population, urban
Organization: Environment Agency
WFD Catchment Management Information England - RBDs and Catchments Cycle 2 - River Operational Catchments

WFD Catchment Management Information England - RBDs and Catchments Cycle 2 - River Operational Catchments.
This dataset sets out the different units used for managing the Water Framework Directive (WFD), and basic information about water bodies, such as their classification and targets, but does not contain detailed information on their topography.  Information for sites in Wales is included where the site crosses the border into England.  Detailed information on terminology and the WFD process is available in our supporting information on the Catchment Data Explorer website.
RBDs and Catchments Cycle 2 (AfA295), Lists of the River Basin Districts, 'Management Catchments' and 'Operational Catchments' we divide the country into, for the purposes of integrated catchment management and the WFD.
Water Bodies Cycle 2 (AfA296), A list of the water bodies that we further sub-divide the country into for the purposes of integrated catchment management and the WFD.
Water Body Classifications Cycle 2 (AfA297), WFD classifications for water bodies at various levels for various years.
Water Body Outcomes (AfA298), Our targets for water body classifications at various points in the future.
Investigations (AfA430), Details of Investigations that establish if the classification result shows a valid problem within a water body and identify reasons for failure.
Reasons for Failure (AfA318), Reasons for Failure identify the cause of less than good classifications (activity, source, sector). The cause is recorded using a defined set of reasons for failure.
Actions and Measures (AfA096), Descriptions of remedial actions and measures being taken to improve the status of a waterbody and the associated costs. Attribution statement: © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2020. All rights reserved.

Tags: catchment, directive, environment, inlandWaters, river
Organization: Environment Agency
WFD Catchment Management Information England - RBDs and Catchments Cycle 2 - River Management Catchments

WFD Catchment Management Information England - RBDs and Catchments Cycle 2 - River Management Catchments.
This dataset sets out the different units used for managing the Water Framework Directive (WFD), and basic information about water bodies, such as their classification and targets, but does not contain detailed information on their topography.  Information for sites in Wales is included where the site crosses the border into England.  Detailed information on terminology and the WFD process is available in our supporting information on the Catchment Data Explorer website.
RBDs and Catchments Cycle 2 (AfA295), Lists of the River Basin Districts, 'Management Catchments' and 'Operational Catchments' we divide the country into, for the purposes of integrated catchment management and the WFD.
Water Bodies Cycle 2 (AfA296), A list of the water bodies that we further sub-divide the country into for the purposes of integrated catchment management and the WFD.
Water Body Classifications Cycle 2 (AfA297), WFD classifications for water bodies at various levels for various years
Water Body Outcomes (AfA298), Our targets for water body classifications at various points in the future.
Investigations (AfA430), Details of Investigations that establish if the classification result shows a valid problem within a water body and identify reasons for failure.
Reasons for Failure (AfA318), Reasons for Failure identify the cause of less than good classifications (activity, source, sector). The cause is recorded using a defined set of reasons for failure.
Actions and Measures (AfA096), Descriptions of remedial actions and measures being taken to improve the status of a waterbody and the associated costs. Attribution statement: © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2020. All rights reserved.

Tags: catchment, directive, environment, inlandWaters, river
Organization: Environment Agency
WFD Catchment Management Information England - RBDs and Catchments Cycle 2 - River Basin Districts Cycle 2

This dataset sets out the different units used for managing the Water Framework Directive (WFD), and basic information about water bodies, such as their classification and targets, but does not contain detailed information on their topography.  Information for sites in Wales is included where the site crosses the border into England.  Detailed information on terminology and the WFD process is available in our supporting information on the Catchment Data Explorer website.
RBDs and Catchments Cycle 2 (AfA295), Lists of the River Basin Districts, 'Management Catchments' and 'Operational Catchments' we divide the country into, for the purposes of integrated catchment management and the WFD.
Water Bodies Cycle 2 (AfA296), A list of the water bodies that we further sub-divide the country into for the purposes of integrated catchment management and the WFD.
Water Body Classifications Cycle 2 (AfA297), WFD classifications for water bodies at various levels for various years.
Water Body Outcomes (AfA298), Our targets for water body classifications at various points in the future.
Investigations (AfA430), Details of Investigations that establish if the classification result shows a valid problem within a water body and identify reasons for failure.
Reasons for Failure (AfA318), Reasons for Failure identify the cause of less than good classifications (activity, source, sector). The cause is recorded using a defined set of reasons for failure.
Actions and Measures (AfA096), Descriptions of remedial actions and measures being taken to improve the status of a waterbody and the associated costs. Attribution statement: © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2020. All rights reserved.

Tags: catchment, directive, environment, inlandWaters, river
Organization: Environment Agency