A PDF map that shows the local authority districts, counties and unitary authorities in the United Kingdom as at April 2023. The map has been created to show the United Kingdom from country level down to local authority district level. (File Size - 1,909 KB)

Standard spending assessments (SSAs) are centrally determined assessments of each authority's need to spend on revenue services, on the total standard spending basis. Central government support comprises revenue support grant, redistributed non-domestic rates, council tax reduction scheme and transitional grants for county or county borough councils. In the context of this table it excludes non-police specific grants.

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This dataset provides population density estimates in persons per square kilometre for the local authorities in Wales for the period from 1991 onwards. The figures are derived by dividing the mid-year population estimates by the latest land area estimates in square kilometres, measured at the mean high water mark, and excluding areas of inland water as recommended by the Office for National Statistics. The supporting population and area estimates are included in the dataset. It should be noted that there are some definitional changes for mid-2020 (particularly affecting the migration components) compared with mid-2019 populations estimates data, and it is advised users read the Quality and Methodology Information section on the Office for National Statistics website. For Wales, the mid-2021 population estimates are the first population estimates to be based on Census 2021. Internal migration estimates for mid-2023 have been produced using a different method to previous years, following a change to the variables available in the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) data. This material is Crown Copyright and may be re-used (not including logos) free of charge in any format or medium, under the terms of the Open Government Licence.

These maps and plans relate to various aspects of planning and development within New South Wales. They consist of a large number of maps and plans of Planning Schemes/Amending Schemes, and Interim Development Orders and Other Instruments prior to the Environment Planning Act, 1979 (submitted by Shire, Municipal and County Councils); and maps and plans relating to various aspects of planning which were produced by the Department or its predecessors, other departments, Councils or individuals (includes such aspects or categories as expressways, green belts, railways, growth centres, electoral districts, public utilities and study areas etc.).

Planning Schemes/Amending Schemes and Interim Development Orders fall into two categories: Regional and Local. By Regional is meant maps pertaining to Cumberland County, Northumberland County, and Illawarra District. By Local is meant maps pertaining to specific shires and municipalities.

Maps of Planning Schemes/Amending Schemes are required to be submitted by statute (submitted by Shire, Municipal or County Councils). Additional maps may consist of scheme maps amended, or certified to, by the Minister; scheme maps as exhibited by the Minister; diagrams indicating recommended amendments arising from objections received thereto; diagrams of recommendations to the Minister; scheme maps as approved and signed by the Minister.

Maps relating to Interim Development Orders or Other Instruments may consist of suspension maps; maps submitted with application for Interim Development Order; Interim Development Control maps; diagrams of representations to the Minister; and maps approved (signed) by the Minister.

Planning Schemes as submitted by Councils sometimes contain supplementary maps to the scheme maps, such as land use, property, communications and public utility maps.

There are some aerial photographs among this material.

(SR Map Nos. 39078-113, 52869-54327, 54937-60; X1384-500, X2501-04). 1,640 maps.

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This description is extracted from Concise Guide to the State Archives of New South Wales, 3rd Edition 2000.

This dataset is one of a number of GIS tables that are used to deliver the Welsh National Access Register (WNAR) project. The collation and presentation of data on a number of sites throughout Wales in an easy-to-view format enables people to find out more about places of interest and their accessibility. The dataset was first created in 2005. It is maintained and added to regularly during the year due to changing partnership information as well as in response to annual agreement partnership checks. This ensures we display the information that our partners want to promote as well as keeping broken URL links to a minimum. This project helps to deliver the former Countryside Council for Wales (CCW's) 'PE04 Enjoying the Outdoors' programme output 'More people from all sectors of society will regularly be using and benefiting from widespread and equitable access to countryside, coast and urban green-space'. The overall aim of the project was to get more people (1% annual increase) from all sectors of society, regularly participating in open-air recreation and exercise. The objectives from this program output are: 1. Increase availability of high quality recreation resource, including public and other urban green-space, without compromising environmental and cultural interests 2. Provide readily available, targeted information about recreation opportunities and encourage greater awareness of rights and responsibility that will lead to positive behaviour changes 3. Provide a means of finding accommodation alongside the recreational opportunities in discussion with our partners.

This dataset is part of the Geographical repository maintained by Opendatasoft. This dataset contains data for parishes/communities in the United Kingdom (England/Wales)The smallest type of administrative area in England is the civil parish (commonly called parish); the equivalent unit in Wales is the community.English parishes are a very old form of spatial unit which originally represented areas of both civil and ecclesiastical administration. They used to be significant local government areas but now have very limited functions. Modern parish councils (which may choose to call themselves a town council) can provide facilities such as village halls, war memorials, cemeteries, leisure facilities and playgrounds. They have duties such as maintenance of public footpaths and may also spend money on cultural projects, community transport initiatives and crime-prevention equipment. In addition they must be notified of all planning applications and consulted on the making of certain by-laws. However, not all parishes have a council – if there are fewer than 200 parishioners, or if the parishioners do not want one, decisions can instead be taken at parish meetings. The geography is further complicated by the fact that several smaller parishes may come together to elect a joint council. Parishes are confined within local authority district boundaries but are not contiguous with electoral wards. In some smaller urban areas, successor parishes have been created, but this is not universal. Non-civil parish areas (NCP) refer to the area in a local authority not comprised of parishes, i.e. unparished areas.The Welsh equivalents of parishes are communities, which fit into and change with UAs. Their councils have similar powers to English parish councils and may also choose to call themselves town councils. Unlike parishes in England, communities cover the whole of Wales, and this gives them greater potential as a statistical unit. There are 877 communities in Wales, over 730 of which currently have a council. Prior to 1974 Wales also had parishes, but these were technically abolished when communities were introduced, despite the new communities initially being aligned to the old parish boundaries.Processors and tools are using this data.EnhancementsAdd ISO 3166-3 codes.Simplify geometries to provide better performance across the services.Add administrative hierarchy.

Parishes are subdivisions of local authorities in many parts of England, and their councils are the most local level of government. Unlike electoral wards/divisions however, parishes are not found in all parts of England. The Welsh equivalents are communities. Note that the full term for administrative parishes is 'civil parishes', to distinguish them from the ecclesiastical parishes which are found in all parts of the UK.

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Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

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The CRoW Act provides for public access on foot to certain types of land, amends the law relating to public rights of way, increases measures for the management and protection for Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) and strengthens wildlife enforcement legislation, and provides for better management of Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB).

Under Section 4 of the CRoW Act it states the following: It shall be the duty of the Countryside Council for Wales (CCW now forms part of Natural Resources Wales (NRW)) to prepare, in respect of Wales, maps which together show; (a) all registered common land, and (b) all open country.

This dataset contains all Common Land with a higher right of access (Urban Commons, Commons with Deeds for Access, 1899 Commons Act) for areas of Wales, and Elan Valley Estate. This dataset does not include the Registered Common Land dataset.

Digitisation took place in 2014 for all Wales.

When using this data for Open Access, it should be used in conjunction with Open Country, Registered Common Land and Public Forests from the same years. Contact your local authority for access to and information about Registers of Common Land.

Welsh water support nationally and internationally important populations of marine mammals (whales, dolphins and seals) which use the area at various stages of their life histories such as feeding and breeding. Since the early 1990s the Countryside Council for Wales (CCW) has been a major supporter of studies that have recorded the distribution and abundance of marine mammals in Wales.

These studies, often undertaken using dedicated networks of volunteers, have helped to inform conservation objectives for Special Areas of Conservation (SAC), monitoring targets and the assessment of proposed developments and impacts. This dataset brings together the best available effort-related survey data on marine mammals in Welsh waters and adjacent parts of the Irish Sea, to provide the highest resolution analysis carried out to date of the spatial and temporal variation in their distribution. The Atlas contains distribution maps, including variations both seasonally and over the long terms of the five most common species (harbour porpoise, bottlenose dolphin, short-beaked common dolphin, Risso's dolphin and minke whale). The purpose of this data capture is to describe the temporal distribution, spatial distribution and relative abundance of all marine mammal species sighted, detected or stranded in Welsh waters.

This dataset is concentrated on species regularly sighted and is designed to help meet obligations under the EU Habitats Directive. In addition is help former Countryside Council for Wales (CCW) now Natural Resources Wales (NRW) advise on marine activities including renewable energy exploitation, fisheries, waterborne recreation and oil and gas exploitation. The study area consists primarily of Welsh territorial seas out to the median line with Ireland and the Isle of Man, and English territorial seas. It was assumed that data contributed were reliable with respect to species identification and had been checked for errors in date, time and position fields; however factors affecting sight ability, survey characteristics and ecological factors may have affected sighting rates. Survey effort remains inadequate in all but a few small areas.

Flood Map shows the areas across Wales that could be affected by flooding from rivers or the sea. It also shows flood defences and the areas that benefit from them. Flood Map is designed to raise awareness among the public local authorities and other organisations of the likelihood of flooding and to encourage people living and working in areas prone to flooding to find out more and take appropriate action. The Flood Map includes several layers of information, this layer is: Flood Zone 2, which is NRWs best estimate of the areas of land between Zone 3 and the extent of the flood from rivers or the sea with a 1000 to 1 chance of flooding in any year. It includes those areas defined in Flood Zone 3.

An online viewable version of this dataset is available via the NRW website.

This data set is one of a number of MapInfo tables that are used to deliver the Welsh National Access Register (WNAR) project. The collation and presentation of data on a number of routes and trails throughout Wales in an easy-to-view format enables people to find out more about places of interest and their accessibility. The dataset was first created in 2005. It is maintained and added to regularly during the year due to changing partnership information as well as in response to annual agreement partnership checks. This project helps to deliver the former Countryside Council for Wales (CCW's) 'PE04 Enjoying the Outdoors' programme output 'More people from all sectors of society will regularly be using and benefiting from widespread and equitable access to countryside, coast and urban green-space'. The overall aim of the project was to get more people (1% annual increase) from all sectors of society, regularly participating in open-air recreation and exercise. 1. Increase availability of high quality recreation resource, including public and other urban green-space, without compromising environmental and cultural interests 2. Provide readily available, targeted information about recreation opportunities and encourage greater awareness of rights and responsibility that will lead to positive behaviour changes 3. Provide a means of finding accommodation alongside the recreational opportunities in discussion with our partners.

A collation of all mapped Saltmarsh habitats in Wales. This is a collation of Saltmarsh habitats (NVC Phase 2) mapped for SACs in Wales and Saltmarsh mapped from the 1:50,000 OS map.

A PDF map shows the Regions and their constituent counties, metropolitan counties, Greater London authority and unitary authorities in England, council areas in Scotland, unitary authorities in Wales and district council areas in Northern Ireland as at April 2011. (File Size - 638 KB).

Non-domestic rates (NDR) are rates paid to billing authorities by all businesses in the area of that authority. Since 1 April 1990, these have been based on a uniform business rate across Wales known as the single national poundage set by central government. This national poundage is applied to the rateable value of each non-domestic property to establish the bill for that property. Billing authorities pay the non-domestic rates collected into a central pool which is first split between county or county borough councils and police authorities and then re-distributed between each authority according to shares of adult population. This replaced the previous system in which billing authorities set their own rates and retained the rates relating to all business in their area.

This dataset has been replaced by the new Areas Benefitting from Flood Defences displayed within the Flood Risk Assessment Wales (FRAW) map (NRW_DS124843). An Archive version of the Flood Map: Areas Benefitting from Flood Defences is available on request The Flood Map is a spatial dataset that shows the areas across Wales that could be affected by flooding from rivers or the sea. It also shows flood defences and the areas that benefit from them. Flood Map is designed to raise awareness among the public local authorities and other organisations of the likelihood of flooding and to encourage people living and working in areas prone to flooding to find out more and take appropriate action. The Flood Map includes several layers of information, this layer is: Areas Benefiting from Flood Defences, which shows those areas that would benefit from the presence of defences in a 1 percent fluvial / 0.5 percent tidal flood event.

This dataset summarises information from WWT's wetland potential mapping at the WFD waterbody catchment (catchment) level. Data from multiple layers are pulled together to allow visualisation of the relative potential for wetlands across catchments of Great Britain. Specifically, it includes data from the WWT 'wetlands for water quality', 'wetlands for carbon storage', 'wetlands for flood resilience' and 'wetlands for urban wellbeing' indicative wetland potential maps, and from the Combined 'multi-benefit' wetland potential map, which amalgamates these four layers. It is recommended that users view these layers alongside the layers created from this dataset.The absence of mapped wetland potential in a catchment does not necessarily mean there is no potential to create wetlands, nor a lack of issues that wetland solutions could be used to address. Wetland potential was only mapped within 'demand' areas where there is a greater need for wetland solutions.This dataset includes the following information:UK Water Framework Directive (WFD) status and waterbody identifiers (for waterbodies in England, Wales and Scotland).Summary information on the total indicative wetland potential (from the four wetland potential maps) per catchment, including the total area (in hectares) and percentage cover of wetland potential across the catchment area.Total area and percentage cover of 'wetlands for flood resilience' and 'wetlands for water quality' potential per catchment. Number of potential 'wetlands for flood resilience' and 'wetlands for water quality' parcels per catchment (figures may be arbitrary due to intersects used to summarise wetland potential).Priority 'demand' catchments for potential 'wetlands for water quality'. Priority 'demand' catchments for potential 'wetlands for flood resilience'. Percentage change in household projections for 2018-2041, per catchment (averaged across Local Authorities and Higher Administrative areas (England & Wales) and Council areas (Scotland)).Average number of new builds (averaged across Local Authorities) built in 2021-2022, per catchment.WWT are calling for the creation of 100,000 hectares of new and restored wetlands in the UK by 2050. This dataset is a part of WWT’s Roadmap to 100,000 hectares project, which aims to assess both the spatial and economic potential for large-scale wetland restoration targeted at tackling some of the key issues faced by UK society. The work has a particular focus on four themes where wetlands can provide solutions, namely (1) wetlands for carbon storage (specifically saltmarsh for blue carbon), (2) wetlands for urban wellbeing, (3) wetlands for flood resilience, and (4) wetlands for water quality. Wetland potential for water quality, carbon storage, flood resilience and urban wellbeing has been mapped.Full methodology can be found here. Attributes:

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Description

wb_id

ID number of the WFD waterbody

wb_name

Name of the WFD waterbody

country

UK country in which the WFD waterbody is located

WFD_class

WFD status classification of the waterbody

ovl_p_ha

Total area of wetland potential (from all four WWT wetland potential layers) in the catchment, in hectares

percnt_ovl

Total area of wetland potential (from all four WWT wetland potential layers) in the waterbody, as a percentage of the catchment area

count_ovl

Number of wetland potential parcels located in the catchment (arbitrary value)

nfm_p_ha

Total area of 'wetlands for flood resilience' potential in the catchment, in hectares

percnt_nfm

Total area of 'wetlands for flood resilience' potential in the catchment, as a percentage of the catchment area

count_nfm

Number of 'wetlands for flood resilience' parcels located in the catchment

wq_p_ha

Total area of 'wetlands for water quality' potential in the catchment

percnt_wq

Total area of 'wetlands for water quality' potential in the catchment, as a percentage of the catchment area

count_wq

Number 'wetlands for water quality' parcels located in the catchment

priorit_wq

Priority 'demand' catchments for 'wetlands for water quality' (1 = 'demand' catchment')

prior_nfm

Priority 'demand' catchments for 'wetlands for flood resilience' (1 = 'demand' catchment')

Av_percent

Percentage change in household predictions from 2018 - 2041 averaged across Local Authorities within the catchment

Av_nb_2122

Number of new builds (2021-22) per catchment (average across Local Authorities within the catchment)

The Flood Map shows the areas across Wales that could be affected by flooding from rivers or the sea. It also shows flood defences and the areas that benefit from them. Flood Map is designed to raise awareness among the public local authorities and other organisations of the likelihood of flooding and to encourage people living and working in areas prone to flooding to find out more and take appropriate action. The Flood Map includes several layers of information, this layer is: Flood Zone 3, which is NRWs best estimate of the areas of land with a 100 to 1 (or greater) chance of flooding each year from rivers or with a 200 to 1 chance (or greater) of flooding each year from the sea.

An online viewable version of this dataset is available via the NRW website.

This data product maps pesticide applications across England and Wales. It is produced at a 1km resolution with units of kg active ingredient applied per year. Pesticide application rates (kg/km2/yr) are calculated for each of the crops grown in each 1km square, with the total application calculated by multiplying the estimated rates by the area of each crop in the square. The product provides application estimates for 129 different active ingredients including herbicides, insecticides, molluscicides and fungicides. Uncertainty maps are produced alongside each active ingredient map to quantify the level of confidence in the estimated applications. Uncertainty is quantified using the distribution of each parameter estimate obtained from the modelling method and is expressed relative to the total application. The product is a snapshot of average applications between 2012 and 2016. The product builds upon the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (CEH) Land Cover® Plus: Crops product. An average of CEH Land Cover® Plus: Crops 2015, 2016 and 2017 is used to reflect average crop coverage at the 1km resolution. Temporal variation in pesticide application is not modelled explicitly but is reflected in the uncertainty maps. This data product was funded by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) under research programme NE/N018125/1 Achieving Sustainable Agricultural Systems (ASSIST). ASSIST is an initiative jointly supported by NERC and the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC).

Electoral Wards/Divisions are the key building blocks of UK administrative geography. They are the spatial units used to elect local government councillors in metropolitan and non-metropolitan districts, unitary authorities and the London boroughs in England; unitary authorities in Wales; council areas in Scotland; and district council areas in Northern Ireland.

The Wards and Electoral Divisions list contains 9,481 areas of the following constituent geographies:

• 7,218 Census Wards in England
• 453 Census Electoral Divisions in England
• 7 Census Merged Wards in England
• 582 Census Wards in Northern Ireland
• 353 Census Wards in Scotland
• 856 Census Electoral Divisions in Wales
• 12 Census Merged Wards in Wales

Please visit ONS Beginner's Guide to UK Geography for more info.

The boundaries are available as either extent of the realm (usually this is the Mean Low Water mark but in some cases boundaries extend beyond this to include off shore islands) or

clipped to the coastline (Mean High Water mark).