Boundaries of Special Protection Areas (SPAs) of Great Britain (including offshore areas)

• Published by: Joint Nature Conservation Committee
• Last updated: 20 October 2022
• Topic: Not added
• Licence: Other Licence ; View licence information

Summary

This resource contains the spatial dataset of Special Protection Area boundaries in Great Britain (including offshore areas), last updated on 30 September 2022. The date of the latest update to the data is provided in the file name.

The SPA spatial dataset for Northern Ireland is available as a separate resource.

Special Protection Areas (SPAs) and Special Areas of Conservation (SACs) form the UK's National Site Network. JNCC maintains the UK National Site Network datasets (formerly UK Natura 2000 datasets) and periodically publishes updates of the datasets following changes to the site network, which might include:

• designation/classification of new sites;
• amendments to existing site boundaries;
• corrections to the datasets or amendments due to updates to the underlying base maps.
  

Please note that the statutory nature conservation bodies responsible for the sites may update site boundary data in between JNCC's periodic updates. To access the latest national site network boundary data, please visit the relevant CNCB website.

More information on the UK's network of Special Protection Areas (SPAs), including information on the most recent updates to the network and details of previous updates (tranches), is available on the SPAs webpage.

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• Boundaries of Special Protection Areas (SPAs) of Northern Ireland
• Boundaries of Special Areas of Conservation (SACs) of Great Britain (excludes offshore areas)
• Boundaries of Special Areas of Conservation (SACs) of Northern Ireland (excludes offshore areas)
• Special Protection Areas (SPAs) with marine components (all UK waters)

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Link to the data	Format	File added	Data preview
JNCC ResourceHub Page	N/A	20 October 2022	Not available

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• Added to data.gov.uk: 2022-10-20
• Access contraints: No limitations
• Harvest GUID: 20dbc9b4-ceac-4bf2-8763-4ae387fa88c4
• Extent: Latitude: 60.884612° to 49.813089°
• Extent: Longitude: -9.320717° to 3.352676°
• Dataset reference date: 2022-09-30 (publication)
• Responsible party: Digital and Data Solutions, JNCC (distributor)
• ISO 19139 resource type: dataset
• Metadata language: eng
• Source Metadata: XML
• Source Metadata: HTML

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