Planning consideration

Important bird areas

Areas identified as being globally important for the conservation of bird populations

Work on this has been paused

Restrictive Licence

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• Design stage: Research
• Tags:
  • licensing restriction
  • constraint
  • environmental

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• Github: Join the discussion
• Synonyms: No synonyms added
• Legislation: No legislation added
• Expected number of records: Unknown
• Frequency of updates: Unknown
• Useful links:
  • National dataset documentation page
• Technical specification: No specification added

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Background information

Each planning consideration we work on passes through the stages of our design process, where we research and answer specific questions to help us collect more information.

Backlog

• Who asked for 'Important bird areas' data?

  The Geospatial Commission has published a list of 65 open datasets that they believe are used during the housing and planning process. This includes Important bird areas.

• What is the driver for the request?

  Other

• Which 2024 focus area does the request support?

  • Modern planning software
  • Faster local plans

Screen

• What is the 'Important bird areas' consideration?

  N/A

• Is there legislation that defines 'Important bird areas'?

  No

• Who, in law, is responsible for the planning consideration or makes decisions about 'Important bird areas'?

  N/A

• Which organisations do we think should publish the data?

  • RSPB

• Is the Important bird areas a trigger?

  No

• Is the Important bird areas something to consult during plan making?

  No

• Is there any Important bird areas data already available?

  Yes

  • What Important bird areas data is currently available?

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      • url: https://opendata-rspb.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/RSPB::ibas-uk/explore?location=54.568045%2C-3.452747%2C5.83
      • name: IBAs UK
      • fields: SitRecID;Region;Country;ISO3;NatName;IntName;FinCode;SitLat;SitLong;SitArea;Num_PAs;IbaStatus;KbaStatus;AzeStatus;MarineIBA;Protect;AddedDate;ChangeDate;DelTxt;DelGeom;Shape_Area;Shape_Length
      • licence: RESTRICTIVE LICENCE - See Notes
      • coverage: National
      • publisher: RSPB
      • attribution: Data reproduced with the permission of RSPB. © Crown Copyright. Ordnance Survey licence number 100021787 ([Year])

• Do we think the data should come from a single source?

  Yes - RSPB

• Will a data standard be required?

  No

Research

• Do we understand the lifecycle of a Important bird areas?

  No

• Do we understand how the data is created/produced?

  N/A

• Where will or should the data be used?

  N/A

• What other planning considerations does it interact with?

  N/A

• Who are the statutory consultees for Important bird areas?

  N/A

• Other than the statutory consultees who are the primary users of Important bird areas? How do we expect them to use Important bird areas?

  N/A

• What are the planning needs for this data?

  This dataset identifies Important Bird Areas (IBA), which have been designated to upport conservation of IBA habitats. This dataset will be useful when plan-making to identify suitable sites for development, in terms of biodiversity, as well as through decision making on planning applications.

• Who are the types of users who might benefit from having access to Important bird areas data?

  N/A

• What are some potential uses of Important bird areas data?

  N/A

• What's the value of adding Important bird areas data to the platform?

  N/A

• From what we have learnt so far are there any risks to making Important bird areas data available?

  The data is available, but under a restrictive licence, so this needs to be investigated further.

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2 updates

• Mike Rose (02 July 2024)

  RESTRICTIVE LICENCE

  The Data are available to you, free of charge, for non-commercial use only.

  The Data must not be used for commercial purposes and not, either directly or indirectly, for financial profit or gain.

  Please note that under this agreement, a commercial purpose includes those profit generating activities of both commercial and non-commercial organisations (including charities and non-profit organisations).

  Re-sale of The Data, or products primarily derived from The Data (whose creation without the use of The Data would have no value), is prohibited.

  The Data may be published in paper or electronic form for internal business use.

  The Data may not be used in publicly available Internet mapping services (e.g. Google Maps/Earth, Microsoft Bing Maps or Yahoo Maps) without prior written permission from the RSPB Conservation Data Management Unit.

  Please contact the RSPB Conservation Data Management Unit if you wish to publish The Data within the public domain.

• Kieran Wint (28 June 2024)

  We need to review the licence of the IBA dataset before we can progress further to analysing the data.

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Last updated: 2024-09-03 14:38:45