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Nature Conservation Orders
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) other land of special interest, and where it is either being actively damaged or there is evidence that it is under threat of damage. The Orders set out certain prohibited operations and the land to which they apply.
For more information visit https://www.nature.scot/professional-advice/protected-areas-and-species/protected-areas/conservation-orders/nature-conservation-order
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Identification info
- Metadata Language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Dataset Reference Date (Creation)
- 2010-07-16
- Dataset Reference Date (Revision)
- 2014-05-12
- Identifier
- https://www.nature.scot / NCO
- Maintenance and update frequency
- Irregular
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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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Protected sites
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- Limitations on Public Access
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Available under the Open Government Licence v3.0 https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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no constraints
- Spatial representation type
- Vector
- Distance
- 5 urn:ogc:def:uom:EPSG::9001
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- Environment
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Temporal reference
Temporal extent
- Begin
- 2001
- End
- 2014
Temporal extent
- Reference system identifier
- urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::27700
Distribution Information
Data format
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Name Version ESRI Shapefile
GML
GeoJSON
ESRI File geodatabase
Geopackage
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- Resource Locator
Data quality info
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- Dataset
- Statement
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Before November 2004 NCOs for SSSIs were made under section 29 of the Wildlife & Countryside Act 1981, and Special NCOs (SNCOs) were made for European sites under regulation 22 of the Conservation (Natural Habitats etc) Regulations 1994. In November 2004 the distinction between NCOs and SNCOs was abolished and now, all NCOs are made under section 23 of the Nature Conservation (Scotland) Act 2004. Scottish Ministers make NCOs after consultation with SNH. No NCOs have been made to protect other land of special interest.
Metadata
- File identifier
- d749c9a8-0d3a-4ea9-a3a8-00a3328f7b48 XML
- Metadata Language
- English
- Resource type
- Dataset
- Metadata Date
- 2025-01-08T13:25:30.757Z
- Metadata standard name
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UK GEMINI
- Metadata standard version
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2.3
Point of contact
- Organisation name
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NatureScot
- Position name
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Data Supply Officer
- Delivery point
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Great Glen House, Leachkin Road
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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
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