Metadata

Local Wildlife Sites

Title

Local Wildlife Sites

Alternative Title

County Wildlife Sites, Hertfordshire Wildlife Sites

Dataset Language

eng

Abstract

Local Wildlife Sites are non-statutory sites designated at a county level as being of ecological significance and are recognised in Local Authority development plans. They are a subset of classifications within the Local Records Centre Sites database. The aim of this identification is to protect such sites from land management changes in connection with planning applications, which may lessen their nature conservation interest, and to encourage sensitive management to maintain and enhance their importance. Although LWS have no statutory protection, their importance is recognised in Local Plans and the National Planning and Policy Framework (NPPF), and they are a material consideration in the planning process. The planning and policy guidance that accompanies the NPPF describes them thus:

"Locally designated ‘Local Wildlife Sites’ and ‘Local Geological Sites’ are areas of substantive nature conservation value and make an important contribution to ecological networks and nature’s recovery….National planning policy expects plans to identify and map these sites, and to include policies that not only secure their protection from harm or loss but also help to enhance them and their connection to wider ecological networks".

Paragraph 013 within the Planning Policy Guidance, Natural Environment

Topic Category

Environment

Keyword

Keyword Value: Wildlife, Natural habitats
Originating Controlled Vocabulary: Integrated Public Sector Vocabulary (IPSV)
Originating Controlled Vocabulary Citation: Version 2.00 - 2006-05-23

Keyword Value: Species distribution
Originating Controlled Vocabulary: GEMET - INSPIRE Spatial Data Themes (GEMET)
Originating Controlled Vocabulary Citation: 2008-12-05

Temporal Extent

Dataset Reference Date

Date: 15/03/2023
Date Type: Revision

Lineage

The original Wildlife Sites were extracted from the 1994-97 Habitat Survey by HBRC. Field survey principally by HMWT volunteers & staff, and (pre-2013) HBRC staff. Species Wildlife Sites surveyed by specialist groups. Ongoing identification of Wildlife Sites by the Wildlife Sites Ratification Group (Hertfordshire Ecology (HCC), HERC, HMWT, Natural England). From November 2013, approved site selections/boundary updates digitised using GIS by HERC.


IPR: Ordnance Survey
Product: MasterMap
Date: 2015

IPR: HCC

IPR: Herts and Middlesex Wildlife Trust

IPR: Wildlife Sites Partnership

IPR: Third party IPR may exist in this data, contact Anita.Parry@hertfordshire.gov.uk for clarification.

Bounding Coordinates

Hertfordshire
West Bounding Longitude: -0.76
East Bounding Longitude: 0.22
North Bounding Latitude: 52.10
South Bounding Latitude: 51.58

Extent

Hertfordshire County

Vertical Extent

-

Spatial Reference System

OSGB36 - National Grid of Great Britain

Spatial Resolution

10m

Resource Locator

Access is controlled, contact gis@hertfordshire.gov.uk for clarification.

Format

ESRI/SDE
ESRI/Shape file

Responsible Organisation

Hertfordshire Environmental Records Institute
Email :enquiries@hercinfo.org.uk
Role: Distributor

Update Frequency

009 AsNecessary

Limitations on Public Access

Reserved for Hertfordshire Environmental Record Centre use. Access limited to authorised persons only.

Copyright Controlled. Use is subject to licence.

There are restrictions on some information regarding sensitive species (e.g. bats/badgers) - although many of these sites have now been deleted if found to be a record only.

Use Constraints

Licensed under the Public Sector Geospatial Agreement;
Hertfordshire County Council's Intellectual Property Rights

You must use the appropriate Copyright Acknowledgement;

For internal use:
©Crown copyright and database rights 2023 Ordnance Survey AC0000849954.

For external use:
© Crown copyright and database rights 2023 Ordnance Survey AC0000849954.
You are not permitted to copy, sub-licence, distribute or sell any of this data to third parties in any form.

For Publicly Available Electronic Copies the following must also be added:
The HCC Watermark;
The phrase: "Use of this data is subject to terms and conditions." set out in a legible font and conspicuous position must form a clear hyperlink to http://www.hertsdirect.org/mapcopyright

This data is supplied without guarantee or any warranty as to the accuracy, currency or completeness, and is provided as is, excluding any warranties of any kind, either express or implied, to the fullest extent permitted by law, including (but not limited to) satisfactory quality or fitness for a particular purpose.

Additional information source

Unique Resource Identifier

LocalWildlifeSites

Resource Type

6 Dataset

Conformity

False

Specification

Unknown

Metadata update date

04/12/2023

Metadata Language

English

Metadata Point of Contact

Hertfordshire County Council - Corporate GIS Team
Email :gis@hertfordshire.gov.uk

Review date

Unknown

Attributes

Name	Long Name	Description

OSGB36 National Grid Bounding Coordinates

West: 486000 East: 552000 North: 245000 South: 189000

More Information

Information validated before Wildlife Site identification and ratified by HBRC, HMWT and NE Ratification Group. However criteria have been applied with varying degrees of strictness and Wildlife Site criteria has changed over time and sites have not been retrospectively reviewed to see if they meet current criteria.
All records have a unique filecode reference name - site descriptions stored in RECORDER.

Location

Change History