SpatialData.gov.scot
Site of Special Scientific Interest (Scotland)
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) considers to best represent our natural heritage - its diversity of plants, animals and habitats, rocks and landforms, or a combinations of such natural features. They are the essential building blocks of Scotland's protected areas for nature conservation. Many are also designated as Natura sites (Special Protection Areas or Special Areas of Conservation).
The national network of SSSIs in Scotland forms part of the wider GB series. SNH designates SSSIs under the Nature Conservation (Scotland) Act 2004. SSSIs are protected by law. It is an offence for any person to intentionally or recklessly damage the protected natural features of an SSSI.
SSSIs were first designated under the National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act 1949. The majority of these were later re-notified under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981. All 1981 Act SSSI designations are carried forward, and all new SSSI designations are now made, under the Nature Conservation (Scotland) Act 2004.
Default
Identification info
- Metadata Language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Dataset Reference Date (Creation)
- 1997
- Dataset Reference Date (Revision)
- 2024-02-15
- Identifier
- www.nature.scot / SSSI
- Presentation form
- Digital map
- Maintenance and update frequency
- Continual
- Resource format
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Name Version ESRI Shapefile
1.0
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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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Protected sites
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GEMET
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nature conservation policy
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- Limitations on Public Access
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
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No limitations on public access
- Use constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
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Contains SNH information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
- Other constraints
- Open Government Licence
- Spatial representation type
- Vector
- Denominator
- 10000
- Topic category
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- Environment
- Extent
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GB-SCT
ISO 3166 1999-03-16
))
Temporal reference
Temporal extent
- Begin
- 1940
- End
- 2023
Temporal extent
- Reference system identifier
- EPSG / OSGB 1936 / British National Grid (EPSG:27700) / 7.9
Distribution Information
Data format
- Data format
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Name Version ESRI Shapefile
ESRI File geodatabase
GeoJSON
Geopackage
GML
Transfer options
- Resource Locator
Data quality info
- Quality Scope
- Dataset
- Conformity
- COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 976/2009 of 19 October 2009 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards the Network Services
- Explanation
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This data set is conformant with the INSPIRE Implementing Rules for
Network Services
- Degree
- true
- Conformity
- COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services
- Explanation
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This data set is conformant with the INSPIRE Implementing Rules for
the interoperability of spatial data sets and services
- Degree
- true
- Statement
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SSSIs were first designated under the National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act 1949. The majority of these were later re-notified under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981. All 1981 Act SSSI designations are carried forward, and all new SSSI designations are now made, under the Nature Conservation (Scotland) Act 2004.The 2004 Act strengthens the protection of sites and gives legal backing to the increased involvement of land owners and managers and local communities.
SNH's SSSI Data has been captured over a long period of time using a range of different source data made available to SNH through the Scottish Central Government SLA, the Pan Government Agreement and subsequently through the One Scotland Mapping Agreement. The data was revised and re-issued in 2012. Please see Access Constraints for more details. SNH also supplies a copy to Registers of Scotland for publication under the Scottish SSSI register.
Designating Authority
SNH
Legislative Context
Nature Conservation (Scotland) Act 2004 (section 3). Previously the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981, Section 28 (as amended) and the National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act 1949, Section 23 (which still applies to a few sites).
Metadata
- File identifier
- ECA527A8-DC9A-49F3-8911-F4CF9C3019A5 XML
- Metadata Language
- English
- Resource type
- Dataset
- Metadata Date
- 2024-02-15T17:02:30
- Metadata standard name
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UK GEMINI
- Metadata standard version
-
2.3
Point of contact
- Individual name
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Data Supply
- Organisation name
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NatureScot
- Position name
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Geographic Information Group
- Delivery point
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Great Glen House
- City
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Inverness
- Postal code
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IV3 8NW
- Country
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United Kingdom
- Electronic mail address
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data_supply@nature.scot supply@nature.sco data_supply@nature.scot
- Role
- Point of contact
