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• Setting biodiversity monitoring objectives

  Clear monitoring objectives are essential to ensure the effectiveness of any biodiversity monitoring process. Clear objectives ensure the collection of relevant data, resource allocation, and...

  • Published by: Joint Nature Conservation Committee
  • Updated: 1 December 2024

• Historic River Quality Objectives

  This record is for Approval for Access product AfA164. The River Quality Objectives (RQO) classification was used for planning water quality improvements until 2006 when the scheme ended. RQOs were...

  • Published by: Environment Agency

• Environmental Permitting Regulations - Waste Sites

  A waste management licence is a legal document issued under the Environmental Protection Act 1990. A licence authorises the treatment keeping or disposal of waste in or on the land. Once we have...

  • Published by: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 1 October 2025

• LIDAR Vegetation Object Model (VOM)

  The LIDAR derived Vegetation Object Model (VOM) is a raster product produced as part of the Environment Agency’s “Keeping Rivers Cool” project. It is an attempt to identify riparian tree cover and...

  • Published by: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 15 December 2023

• Environmental Permitting Regulations - Waste Sites Quarterly Summary

  A waste management licence was a legal document issued under the Environmental Protection Act 1990. A licence authorised the treatment keeping or disposal of waste in or on the land.

  The...

  • Published by: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 13 August 2025

• Environmental Noise Directive (END) Noise Mapping Agglomerations England Round 2

  Areas which the Secretary of State considers to be urban (with a population greater than or equal to 100,000 people) where, under the Environmental Noise Directive (Round 2), Defra is required to...

  • Published by: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
  • Updated: 15 March 2018

• Environmental Noise Directive (END) Noise Mapping Agglomerations England Round 3

  Areas which the Secretary of State considers to be urban (with a population greater than or equal to 100,000 people) where, under the Environmental Noise Directive (Round 3), Defra is required to...

  • Published by: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
  • Updated: 27 June 2019

• Measures for 2027 objectives and beyond

  The spreadsheet contains a summary, for each operational catchment of the measures needed to achieve water body objectives by 2027 and beyond, to support the cycle 2 river basin management plans....

  • Published by: Environment Agency

• WFD RBMP2 Cycle 2 Classification Objectives

  This dataset contains cycle 2 classification data and objectives set in 2015. It also contains reasons for alternative objectives. It was created to support the cycle 2 river basin management...

  • Published by: Environment Agency

• WFD cycle 1 surface water classification status and objectives

  The Water Framework Directive 2000/60/EC (WFD) Ground water Classification Status Cycle 2 dataset contains classification status for water bodies in England reported from 2013 onwards. For...

  • Published by: Environment Agency

• WFD Cycle 2 groundwater classification status and objectives

  The Water Framework Directive 2000/60/EC (WFD) Ground water Classification Status Cycle 2 dataset contains classification status for water bodies in England reported from 2013 onwards. For...

  • Published by: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 15 September 2020

• WFD RBMP2 Cycle 1 Progress Classification Objectives

  This dataset contains cycle 1 classification data from 2009, objectives set in 2009 and 2015 classification data to support the cycle 2 river basin management plans. It contains information on...

  • Published by: Environment Agency

• WFD Groundwater Classification Status and Objectives Cycle 1

  This record is for Approval for Access product AfA424. WFD Groundwater Classification Status and Objectives Cycle 1 dataset shows the classification status and environmental objectives for...

  • Published by: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 3 October 2015

• Seahorse species predicted habitat distributions and associated environmental data layers covering the shelf seas surrounding the UK

  This dataset contains predicted seahorse habitat distributions for two species (*Hippocampus hippocampus *and H. guttulatus) and the genus combined (Hippocampus hippocampus MAXENT.asc,...

  • Published by: Centre for Environment, Fisheries & Aquaculture Science
  • Updated: 1 February 2024

• Water Quality Exemptions Public Register Online

  This record is for Approval for Access product AfA208. Certain activities are exempt from the need to have an environmental permit. In order to qualify for an exemption, the discharge or activity...

  • Published by: Environment Agency

• Historic UK Water Quality Sampling Harmonised Monitoring Scheme Summary Data

  This record is for Approval for Access product AfA178.The Historic UK Water Quality Sampling Harmonised Monitoring Scheme (HMS) data contains statistics for a series of water quality sampling sites...

  • Published by: Environment Agency

• 2010-2011 Natural England (NE) Snettisham Lagoons water quality monitoring

  Survey name: 2010-2011 Natural England (NE) Snettisham Lagoons water quality monitoring This is a collation of surveys to gather data and evidence from a variety of marine environments. The survey...

  • Published by: Natural England

• Local Environment Quality Survey for England, 2014-15

  Data for the Local Environment Quality Survey for England, 2014-15. Includes data on the following: litter; detritus; graffiti; fly-posting; recent leaf and blossom fall; weed growth; and staining....

  • Published by: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
  • Updated: 21 December 2015

• Water Framework Directive Cycle 2 Heavily Modified Water Body Use and Physical Modification

  A requirement of the Water Framework Directive is to report the physical modifications and uses that have resulted in a heavily modified water body. This dataset lists the physical modifications...

  • Published by: Environment Agency

• National Trees Outside Woodland Map

  The National Trees Outside Woodland (TOW) V1 map is a vector product funded by DEFRA’s Natural Capital and Ecosystem Assessment (NCEA) programme produced under Forest Research’s Earth Observation...

  • Published by: Forestry Commission
  • Updated: 24 April 2025