AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Phytophthora pluvialis Scotland Demarcated Areas

Areas covered by restrictions to limit the spread of the tree disease Phytophthora pluvialis. This is the 'demarcated area' referred to in the Plant Health (Phytophthora pluvialis) Notices issued by Scottish Forestry issued under regulation 17(1) of The Plant Health (Official Controls and Miscellaneous Provisions) (Scotland) Regulations 2019.

Phytophthora pluvialis is a tree disease which affects Western Hemlock and Douglas Fir trees, among others. It is a fungus-like pathogen which causes needle cast (where needles turn brown and fall off), shoot dieback, and lesions on the stem, branches, and roots. P. pluvialis was first seen in Devon and Cornwall in 2021, before being identified in Cumbria and then Scotland. 

To limit the spread Scottish Forestry has issued Plant Health Notices under regulation 17(1) of The Plant Health (Official Controls and Miscellaneous Provisions) (Scotland) Regulations 2019. The Notices bring in restrictions on felling and movement of relevant susceptible material within the demarcated areas, and came into effect on the start dates noted in the attribute table. This dataset shows the boundary of the demarcated area referred to in the Plant Health Notice.

Note that this dataset contains both active and inactive demarcated area boundaries.  You can see which is which by looking at the Status field in the attribute table.  For example, area No.1 was superseded by area No.2 in July 2022 and is no longer active, but area No.1 is retained for records.

Tags: Environment, Forest Management, Forestry, Land use, Planning, Plant Health, Restrictions, Tree Health, Woodland
Organization: Scottish Government SpatialData.gov.scot
Tree Preservation Orders - Dundee

Tree Preservation Orders are made by a Planning Authority under Section 160 of the Town
and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1997 as amended by the Planning etc (Scotland) Act
2006 and within the procedures set out in the Town and Country Planning (Tree
Preservation Order and Trees in Conservation Areas) (Scotland) Regulations 2011. They
are an effective means of protecting individual trees, groups of trees or woodlands whose
removal would have significant impact on the public amenity of an area.

Where protection is given by a TPO, prior consent in writing is required from the Council to
carry out any work on the trees. It is an offence to cut down, lop, top, uproot or wilfully
damage or destroy a protected tree without the Council¿s permission.

An owner wishing to carry out work on a tree must apply online at the Scottish Government¿s
e-planning system at https://eplanning.scotland.gov.uk/WAM/.

Tags: Protected sites, environmental policy, environmental protection, tree
Organization: Scottish Government SpatialData.gov.scot
Vacant and Derelict Land Audit 2016 - Moray

Vacant and Derelict Land Audit 2016 (Moray) The Scottish Vacant and Derelict Land Survey is a data collection undertaken to establish the extent and state of vacant and derelict land in Scotland. The survey has been operating since 1988, and is managed by the Scottish Government Communities Analysis Division. The data is sourced from local authorities and the Loch Lomond and Trossachs National Park Authority.

Tags: Land use, Scotland, planning
Organization: Scottish Government SpatialData.gov.scot
FGS Native Woodland - Integrated Habitat Network

This dataset provides an Integrated Habitat Network (IHN) for native woodlands in Scotland.

Its purpose is to aid the scoring process when assessing Forestry Grant Scheme (FGS) applications made under the SRDP (2014 onwards) programme.  

It identifies three levels of information:-
-  core native woodlands
-  primary zones that are within a 'least-cost distance' of 500m
-  secondary zones that are within a 'least-cost distance' of 2,000m 

These latter two zones represent the differing dispersal abilities of generic woodland species across surrounding land which is not source native woodland.

Tags: Environment, FGS, Felling, Forest Management, Forestry, Grant Schemes, Land use, Landscape, Licence, Ownership, Planning, Woodland
Organization: Scottish Government SpatialData.gov.scot
Central Scotland Green Network Boundary (CSGN)

The Central Scotland Green Network (CSGN) will change the face of Central Scotland, by restoring and transforming the landscape of an area stretching from Ayrshire and Inverclyde in the west, to Fife and the Lothians in the east.

Tags: Environment, Felling, Forest Management, Grant Schemes, Land use, Landscape, Licence, Ownership, Planning, Woodland
Organization: Scottish Government SpatialData.gov.scot
National Record of the Historic Environment: Historic Land use Assessment

The Historic Land use Assessment (HLA) is a technique for helping understand the historic aspects of the landscape around us from an archaeological perspective. The HLA records the historical origins of the various components that make up the landscape, showing how they interrelate spatially and chronologically, and in doing so offers an insight into some of the processes that have created our modern landscape and enables us to recognise how features that survive from past events continue to influence the present. As such, the HLA is a key tool for understanding the historic landscape and complements other techniques of landscape assessment. In combination these enable a more holistic view of the landscape and its development over time to be achieved and approaches to landscape management and planning to be better integrated.

Tags: Historic, Land use, Land-use, Landscape
Organization: Scottish Government SpatialData.gov.scot
Galloway Dark Skies Park

A Dark Sky Park is a place with exceptionally dark night skies, a place where people have committed to keeping those skies dark, by controlling light pollution.

In November 2009, the International Dark-sky Association designated Galloway Forest Park as only the fourth Dark Sky Park in the world and the first in the UK.

But that's not all. The Galloway Park is REALLY dark - a Gold Tier Dark Skies park. Very few people live in the 300 square miles of forest and hills in the park so nights really are black - apart from the stars!  Forestry Commission Scotland and the people of the park are committed to keeping it that way.

Tags: Environment, Felling, Forest Management, Land use, Landscape, Ownership, Planning, Woodland
Organization: Scottish Government SpatialData.gov.scot
South Ayrshire Health & Social Care Partnership Locality Boundaries

Locality planning is a key element of Health & Social Care Integration and with the enactment of the Public Bodies (Joint Working) (Scotland) Act, 2014 has become a legal requirement in relation to the planning and delivery of heath and social care services.  The legislation requires that South Ayrshire is divided into localities for the purpose of preparing a Strategic Plan.  The South Ayrshire Health & Social Care Partnership Locality Boundaries dataset was created to meet this requirement.

Tags: Administrative units, Statistical units, administrative boundary
Organization: Scottish Government SpatialData.gov.scot
Place Name Gazetteer - Scotland

Place-names represent a fundamental geographical identifier, which also have considerable cultural, historical and linguistic importance. Scotland had a great tradition of publishing descriptive (long-form) gazetteers in the 19th century. 

This dataset is the GIS point format output from a project funded by the Scottish Government in the early 2010s, to create a Definitive Place-Name Gazetteer for Scotland, which helped meet the INSPIRE requirements for a place-name layer. The data also forms the underlying content for the Gazetteer for Scotland web pages: https://www.scottish-places.info/ 

In 2009 a workshop was run in conjunction with the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historic Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS) to examine the range of gazetteers in use in Scotland, together with a broad set of requirements. This identified a number of organisations which hold or maintain at least 15 different gazetteers that include geographical names for Scotland. The two most significant gazetteers were the Gazetteer for Scotland and the Ordnance Survey 1:50000 (OS 1:50K) product – which together form the basis for this dataset. 

The Gazetteer for Scotland is a descriptive gazetteer, with a modest number (22,000) of rich entries, including a textual description and rich feature-typing. At the time of creation, the OS 1:50K gazetteer had long been Ordnance Survey's only place-name gazetteer, used as part of numerous applications.

It was decided that, for this new 'definitive' place name gazetteer, any named feature could/ should potentially be included, but it was accepted that the list will always be incomplete. 

This dataset could be used (and potentially linked with) other datasets like the Ordnance Survey Open Names, the One Scotland Gazetteer and the Historical Names gazetteer.

The methodology for this data was a combination of automated and manual editing. Automated methods were used in feature classification and duplicate detection. Manual editing was required both to confirm or provide a feature classification, but also to improve the spatial referencing.

Standards had to be adopted; for example water bodies were spatially located by a point which approximated its centre, while rivers were spatially located at their termination and other liner features by a random point along their length. The former gives a useful spatial reference, the latter in many cases does not.

Quality checking suggests that 95% of points were located to 100m or better, and 5% located to 20m or better. More than 90% of features are classified correctly, on the basis of the evidence available.

Copyrights and acknowledgments. The dataset is (c) Bruce M. Gittings (University of Edinburgh) and the Scottish Government.

This dataset contains Ordnance Survey data (c) Crown copyright and database right 2010, released by The Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, April 2010.

Tags: Geographical names
Organization: Scottish Government SpatialData.gov.scot
1:50,000 Land Capability for Agriculture WMS. (Land capability for agriculture, partial cover)

This service is the digital (vector) version of the Land Capability for Agriculture of Scotland 1:50,000 maps. Also known as "Land capability for agriculture (partial cover)". Refer to the datasets for more information.

Tags: Land use, Soil, infoMapAccessService
Organization: Scottish Government SpatialData.gov.scot
Gardens and Designed Landscapes

Gardens and designed landscapes are grounds which have been laid out for artistic effect and, in appropriate cases, include references to any buildings, land, or water on, adjacent, or contiguous to such grounds. 

Sites included in the Inventory of Gardens and Designed Landscapes are nationally important. The criteria for determining national importance is published in Annex 5 of the Scottish Historic Environment Policy 2011. 

The duty to compile and maintain the Inventory is statutory. Historic Environment Scotland manages this work on behalf of the Scottish Ministers. 

There is no primary legislation that affords protection to Inventory gardens and designed landscapes. However, Inventory status is a material consideration in the planning system.

Tags: Conservation of Monuments, Garden, Landscape Conservation, Landscaping, Protected Sites, Protected sites
Organization: Scottish Government SpatialData.gov.scot
HES LiDAR Project: Data procured from Blom Aerofilms Ltd (now part of Cyient Europe Ltd)

This LiDAR data was captured by Blom Aerofilms Ltd (now part of Cyient Europe Limited) for Historic Environment Scotland (HES) as part of the Rae Project, the 3D Digital Documentation of HES’ Properties in Care and other HES Projects. The LiDAR data was captured in 2016/17 of the sites and their immediate landscape and processed in LAS format to 0.25m resolution for the following sites:

•	Eileach-an-Naoimh
•	Eilean Mor
•	Holyrood Park
•	Inch Kenneth
•	Inchcolm
•	Iona and Fionnphort, Mull
•	Inchmahome Priory and associated landward area
•	Kilmartin Glen

* Please Note: Kilmartin Glen data is one complete area encompassing all HES sites here denoted as “Kilmartin Glen” in the above list including the contextual landscape of those sites as defined in the project.
 
Data was supplied as Raw data in *.laz format and 0.25m *.las format and in ascii format as DTM (Terrain) and DSM (Surface) data. Data is delivered here in *.laz and GeoTiff format.

It is important to note that only areas required for the specific purposes of the HES project were procured

Tags: Heritage, Orthoimagery, cultural heritage
Organization: Scottish Government SpatialData.gov.scot
Local Development Plan: Areas of Panoramic Quality (APQs) - Argyll and Bute

Areas of Panoramic Quality designated in the Argyll and Bute adopted Local Development Plan 2015. These are areas of regional importance in terms of their landscape quality which were previously identified as ‘Regional Scenic Areas’ in the former Strathclyde Structure Plan

Tags: Environmental policy, Land use, Planning
Organization: Scottish Government SpatialData.gov.scot
Forest Research Experiment Sites GB 2016

This dataset records Forest Research Experiment sites on the National Forest Estate and private land. Objective is to avoid accidental damage to Forest Research experiments and sample plots during Forest Enterprise operations and to provide Forest Enterprise Districts with contact details for experiments and sample plots so that they can enquire as to suitability of operations in surrounding forest.

Tags: OpenDEFRA, OpenData, Utility and governmental services, biodiversity, conservation, environment, experiment, experiments, research, science, scientific
Organization: Scottish Government SpatialData.gov.scot
Local Development Plan: Areas for Action - Argyll and Bute

Areas for Action designated in the Argyll and Bute adopted Local Development Plan 2015.  Subject to resource availability during the plan-period, these areas will be the focus for partnership or community action. Area remits for these AFAs are being worked up in the Supplementary Information and Guidance report; these area remits may include investment and funding packages, land assembly and asset management programmes, development and redevelopment proposals, infrastructure
provision and environmental enhancement proposals. Depending on circumstances, AFAs may coincide with other categories of sites such as potential development areas.

Tags: Area management/restriction/regulation zones and r, Planning & Cadastral
Organization: Scottish Government SpatialData.gov.scot
Probable Shallow Coal Mine Workings

Probable shallow coal mine workings contain locations and estimated extents of probable shallow underground workings for which no recorded plan exists, but where it is likely that workable coal at shallow depths has been mined before records were kept. The data has been estimated from available mining records by qualified mining surveyors.

Since 1872 there has been a law that requires all coal mine operators to deposit working plans of the mine with the Government following the cessation of operations. Prior to this date the plans were often destroyed or kept in private ownership.

This layer was constructed to show areas where the Coal Authority believe that there is evidence of past coal mine workings but have no formal abandonment plan for those workings, such as an adjacent mine plan may have the annotation ‘Ancient workings’, located by development and/or site investigation, the workings may even be shown on an estate/surface plan.

This dataset does not therefore constitute a complete dataset and omissions of recorded and unrecorded shallow workings do not constitute virgin un-worked ground; standing advice must prevail.

Tags: coal, energy, ground stability, mining, mining report, probable shallow workings, underground
Organization: Scottish Government SpatialData.gov.scot
LiDAR for Scotland Phase 6- DTM

The Scottish Public Sector LiDAR (Phase 6) was initially captured by Fugro for Scottish Power Energy Network (SPEN) from 2022 to 2022 to monitor their overhead power cable network under their Virtual World Asset Management programme. The Scottish Government procured this dataset with a contribution from SEPA for public use in 2022. This dataset reflects the Digital Terrain Model (DTM) produced from the point cloud data.

Tags: Orthoimagery
Organization: Scottish Government SpatialData.gov.scot
Map of subsoil compaction risk (partial cover)

The map shows the vulnerability of subsoils to compaction by traffic. It covers most of Scotland’s cultivated agricultural land area. The subsoil compaction risk gives information on the likelihood of the subsoil becoming compacted due to heavy machinery in four classes (Extremely vulnerable, Very vulnerable, Moderately vulnerable or Not particularly vulnerable) based on the soil texture and the amount of water left in the soil after any excess has drained away (known as field capacity).

Tags: Soil, compaction, soil, soil compaction, subsoil
Organization: Scottish Government SpatialData.gov.scot
National Forest Estate District Boundaries GB

Forest Enterprise Scotland comprises 10 Forest District boundary areas. 

Forest Enterprise England comprises 6 Forest District boundary areas.

Attributes:

DISTRICT       Forest District Name
ADDRESS_1   Address
ADDRESS_2   Address
ADDRESS_3   Address
ADDRESS_4   Address
POSTCODE    Postcode
PHONE_NO    Telephone Number
EMAIL             Email Address

© Crown copyright and database right 'year'.\\nOrdnance Survey Licence number 100021242

Tags: Administrative boundary, Forest Districts, Forest Management, Land use, OpenData, Utility and governmental services
Organization: Scottish Government SpatialData.gov.scot
Scapa Designated Anchor Berths - Orkney Islands

A polygon dataset showing each anchor berth area in the Scapa Flow. These have not been merged.
Scapa Flow is identified in National Planning Framework 4 as a nationally significant harbour asset. It is one of the principal locations in Europe for Ship-to-Ship (STS) operations for the transfer of crude and fuel oils. 
There are 15 designated anchor berths in Scapa Flow including 4 STS berths. Designated anchor berths include the associated 1500 metre radius sensitive areas for safe vessel manoeuvring.

Tags: Anchorage, Transport networks
Organization: Scottish Government SpatialData.gov.scot
National Forest Estate Legal Boundary GB 2017

Legal Boundaries

This layer shows the external legal boundaries of land within FC ownership. It does not show the internal deed boundaries.

Each polygon has one primary attribute:
FORESTDIST : Forest District name

This dataset is a product of the Deeds Management System.

Tags: Environment, Felling, Forest Management, Land use, Landscape, Ownership, Planning, Woodland
Organization: Scottish Government SpatialData.gov.scot
Moray Onshore Wind Energy 2017 Policy Guidance Map for Large Typologies (Moray)

Areas of Greatest Potential. Scottish Planning Policy states that planning authorities “should identify where there is strategic capacity for wind farms, and areas with the greatest potential for wind development”. Areas of greatest scope for further investigating the feasibility of developing wind farms. These areas have been identified on Policy Guidance maps by removing additional constraints from the spatial framework map of the areas likely to be most appropriate for wind farm development. The remaining areas which have been mapped for each development typology are the areas with the fewest constraints and therefore the greatest potential for wind farm developments.

Tags: Area management/restriction/regulation zones and r, Scotland, planning
Organization: Scottish Government SpatialData.gov.scot
National Air Traffic Services (NATS) Safeguarding Zones - Scotland

Under The Town & Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1990 and The Town and Country Planning (Technical Sites) (Scotland) Direction 2003 and Scottish Executive Planning Circular 2/2003, planning authorities are required to consult with NATS if a planning application of significant height falls within its Safeguarding Zones.

There are 3 types of bodies that can produce Safeguarding Zones
1.	An officially safeguarded civil aerodrome (of which there were 12 at the time the legislation was drafted)
2.	The operator of a Civil En-route Technical Site
3.	Defence Estates in relation to military aerodromes, technical sites and explosives storage areas

The data provided here covers the 2nd case above, and any consultation in relation to these sites should be routed to natssafeguarding@nats.co.uk 

The areas outlined in this dataset are provided by NATS to planning authorities based on the following Notifiable Development Heights

GREY - All Developments AGL                                       
RED - All Buildings, Structures, Erections & Works exceeding 10 metres in height (32.8 feet) AGL                                                           
GREEN - All Buildings, Structures, Erections & Works exceeding 15 metres in height (49.2 feet) AGL                                                              
YELLOW - All Buildings, Structures, Erections & Works exceeding 45 metres in height (147.6 feet) AGL                                                       
BLUE - All Buildings, Structures, Erections & Works exceeding 90 metres in height (295.3 feet) AGL

Tags: Transport networks
Organization: Scottish Government SpatialData.gov.scot
Council Register of Assets - Moray

Council Register of Assets (Moray).  Section 94 of the Community Empowerment (Scotland) Act 2015 (the Act) requires public authorities to make available to members of the public a register of land that it owns or leases “to the best of its knowledge and belief”.  The purpose of the register is to help Community Transfer Bodies identify assets that may be available through asset transfer under Part 5 of the Act.  The inclusion of an asset on the register is a requirement of the Act and does not necessarily imply that the Council is actively seeking to transfer that asset to the community.

Tags: Land use, Scotland, estates
Organization: Scottish Government SpatialData.gov.scot
National Forest Estate Ownership Scotland 2019

This dataset is a product of the Land Transaction layer within ForesterWeb used for maintaining estate transactions. Ownership relates estates acquisitions held in ForesterWeb, that is used to interrogate and maintain estate transactions by Forest Research on behalf of Forestry and Land Scotland.

Attributes;

OBJECTID
Shape
SIGN_DATE
TITLE
Shape_Length
Shape_Area

Tags: Environment, Felling, Forest Management, Land transactions, Land use, Landscape, Ownership, Planning, Woodland, forest management, forestry
Organization: Scottish Government SpatialData.gov.scot
FGS Target Area - Predator Control for Black Grouse

This dataset is derived from data supplied the British Trust for Ornithology (BTO) and is based on information from the BTO Bird Atlas 2007-11.  Scottish Forestry would like to thanks BTO for their approval to use this data.

The areas defined in this dataset can help support predator control to benefit black grouse which are vulnerable to predation.  This support is offered via the Forestry Grant Scheme (FGS) - Sustainable Management of Forests - Species Conservation - Predator Control for Capercaillie and Black Grouse.

Tags: Environment, FGS, Felling, Forest Management, Forestry, Grant Schemes, Land use, Landscape, Licence, Ownership, Planning, Woodland
Organization: Scottish Government SpatialData.gov.scot