283 datasets found

Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) are those areas of land and water (to the seaward limits of local authority areas or MLWS) that Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH)...

Biosphere Reserves are areas of terrestrial and coastal ecosystems promoting the conservation of biodiversity with sustainable use. Biosphere Reserves serve to demonstrate...

HERs (Historic Environment Records) developed out of SMRs (Sites and Monuments Records). SMRs were established from the 1960s onwards in response to the loss of the...

Whilst TPOs are a legal requirement they may not always be digitised accurately. Users of this data should not assume this data is totally accurate and should consult the...

There are many areas where the scenery is highly valued locally and local authorities often give these landscapes a local designation. This is to ensure that the landscape is...

All local authorities will receive planning applications for renewable energy sites. Where local authorities have managed to categorise these in a structured way, we are...

An Article 4 Direction is a statement made under The Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (Scotland) Amendment Order 2011. The Direction, made by a local...

Under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Scotland) Act 1997 a local authority may determine which parts of its area are of special architectural or historic...

Designated landscapes within Perth and Kinross which merit special attention, either because they are of particular value and warrant protection or because they are degraded and...

Nature Conservation Orders (NCOs) are made to protect any natural feature of land that is within (1) a site of special scientific interest (SSSI), (2) a European site or (3)...

Nature30 sites are a form of Other Effective area-based Conservation Measure (OECM), and are a non-statutory, bottom-up approach to conserving land to benefit biodiversity....

This WFS provides feature access to the data about the various designated sites (protected areas) in Scotland.

This interactive map service contains the various categories of protected areas and sites in Scotland.

Compiled and managed by Historic Environment Scotland, the National Record of the Historic Environment (NRHE) contains over 320,000 records and 1.3 million catalogue entries...

Defining Scotland’s Places (DSP) aims to define the known extent of the archaeological sites and monuments in the National Record of the Historic Environment at Historic...

This database and mapping tool was produced to allow the identification of sites important to this incredibly diverse range of grassland fungal species for which Scotland is...

Shellfish Water Protected Areas came into force on 22/12/13 comprising 85 areas defined by The Water Environment (Shellfish Water Protected Areas - Designation) (Scotland) Order...

Historic or architecturally significant buildings formerly designated as Listed Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest under the Planning (Listed Buildings and...

Historic or architecturally significant buildings formerly designated as Listed Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest under the Planning (Listed Buildings and...

Historic or architecturally significant buildings of national importance are designated as Listed Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest under the Planning...