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Most are in private ownership, although some are owned and managed by local wildlife trusts, or other voluntary conservation bodies. \r\n\r\nNotification of an SSSI under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 has since been amended by the Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2001, which brought about numerous changes in the way SSSI are notified managed and protected. \r\n\r\nIn order to ensure consistent, favourable long-term management of these sites, Natural Resources Wales (NRW) with landowners have prepared management plans for all SSSI in Wales. Local planning authorities are required to consult NRW before allowing any development to proceed that may affect an SSSI. Water, gas and electricity companies must also do the same. \r\n\r\nSSSIs have been designated, from 1949 to the present day, and are on-going. The data has been held digitally since the mid-1990s. This data has been checked by relevant NRW staff. Please refer to the designation map as the legal definitive boundary. For large SSSIs that were captured digitally and have been printed on a smaller scale map than OS MasterMap, please refer to the OS MasterMap edition at time of capture to view the definitive boundary.", "includedInDataCatalog": { "@id": "http://portal.medin.org.uk/portal/json-ld/catalog.jsonld" }, "conditionsOfAccess": [ "access: There are no access restrictions on this data. NRW may release, publish or disseminate it freely.", "access: no limitations", "use: \u00a9 CNC/NRW All rights Reserved. Contains Ordnance Survey Data. Ordnance Survey Licence number AC0000849444. Crown Copyright and Database Right Data may be re-used under the terms of the Open Government Licence providing it is done so, acknowledging both the source and copyright of the owners. It is the recipient's responsibility to ensure the data is fit for the intended purpose.", "use: Contains Natural Resources Wales information \u00a9 Natural Resources Wales and Database Right. All rights Reserved. Contains Ordnance Survey Data. Ordnance Survey Licence number AC0000849444. Crown Copyright and Database Right.", "use: https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/" ], "temporalCoverage": "1992-01-01/", "keywords": [ { "@type": "DefinedTerm", "identifier": "http://inspire.ec.europa.eu/theme/ps", "name": "Protected sites" }, { "@type": "DefinedTerm", "name": "conservation (see also conservation of specific subjects)" }, { "@type": "DefinedTerm", "name": "Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI)" }, { "@type": "DefinedTerm", "name": "habitats (see also specific types of habitats)" }, { "@type": "DefinedTerm", "name": "geographical information systems (GIS)" }, { "@type": "DefinedTerm", "identifier": "http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/P02/current/HBEX/", "inDefinedTermSet": "http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/P02/current/", "termCode": "HBEX", "name": "Habitat extent" }, { "@type": "DefinedTerm", "identifier": "http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/P02/current/HBCH/", "inDefinedTermSet": "http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/P02/current/", "termCode": "HBCH", "name": "Habitat characterisation" }, { "@type": "DefinedTerm", "name": "Mountains, Moorland and Heaths (SMNR)" }, { "@type": "DefinedTerm", "name": "Provisioning Services (SMNR)" }, { "@type": "DefinedTerm", "name": "Regulating Services (SMNR)" }, { "@type": "DefinedTerm", "name": "Ecosystem (SMNR)" }, { "@type": "DefinedTerm", "name": "Animals, Plants and Other Organisms (SMNR)" }, { "@type": "DefinedTerm", "name": "Sea and Coast (SMNR)" }, { "@type": "DefinedTerm", "name": "Marine (SMNR)" }, { "@type": "DefinedTerm", "name": "Freshwater and Wetlands (SMNR)" }, { "@type": "DefinedTerm", "name": "Semi-natural Grasslands (SMNR)" }, { "@type": "DefinedTerm", "name": "Management Areas (SMNR)" }, { "@type": "DefinedTerm", "name": "Cultural Services (SMNR)" }, { "@type": "DefinedTerm", "name": "Woodlands (SMNR)" }, { "@type": "DefinedTerm", "name": "Physical Geography (Physiography) (SMNR)" }, { "@type": "DefinedTerm", "name": "Coastal Margins (SMNR)" }, { "@type": "DefinedTerm", "name": "Sustainable Management of Natural Resources (SMNR)" }, { "@type": "DefinedTerm", "name": "Ecosystem Services (SMNR)" }, { "@type": "DefinedTerm", "name": "Natural Resources (Incl. Features and Processes) (SMNR)" }, { "@type": "DefinedTerm", "name": "Soil and Land (SMNR)" } ], "spatialCoverage": { "@type": "Place", "geo": { "@type": "GeoShape", "box": "51.240829 -5.777741 53.513067 -2.608865" }, "additionalProperty": [ { "@type": "PropertyValue", "propertyID": "http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/27700", "value": "National Grid of Great Britain - urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::27700" } ] }, "author": [ { "@type": "Organization", "name": "Natural Resources Wales (NRW)", "description": "owner", "email": "enquiries@naturalresourceswales.gov.uk", "address": { "@type": "PostalAddress", "streetAddress": "Maes-y-Ffynnon, Penrhosgarnedd, Bangor, Gwynedd, LL57 2DW, Wales" } } ], "maintainer": [ { "@type": "Organization", "name": "Natural Resources Wales (NRW)", "description": "custodian", "email": "enquiries@naturalresourceswales.gov.uk", "address": { "@type": "PostalAddress", "streetAddress": "Maes-y-Ffynnon, Penrhosgarnedd, Bangor, Gwynedd, LL57 2DW, Wales" } } ], "producer": [ { "@type": "Organization", "name": "Natural Resources Wales (NRW)", "description": "originator", "email": "enquiries@naturalresourceswales.gov.uk", "address": { "@type": "PostalAddress", "streetAddress": "Maes-y-Ffynnon, Penrhosgarnedd, Bangor, Gwynedd, LL57 2DW, Wales" } } ], "publisher": [ { "@type": "Organization", "name": "Natural Resources Wales (NRW)", "description": "pointOfContact", "email": "enquiries@naturalresourceswales.gov.uk", "address": { "@type": "PostalAddress", "streetAddress": "Maes-y-Ffynnon, Penrhosgarnedd, Bangor, Gwynedd, LL57 2DW, Wales" } } ], "provider": [ { "@type": "Organization", "name": "Natural Resources Wales (NRW)", "description": "distributor", "email": "enquiries@naturalresourceswales.gov.uk", "address": { "@type": "PostalAddress", "streetAddress": "Maes-y-Ffynnon, Penrhosgarnedd, Bangor, Gwynedd, LL57 2DW, Wales" } } ], "creator": [ { "@type": "Organization", "name": "Natural Resources Wales (NRW)", "description": "owner", "email": "enquiries@naturalresourceswales.gov.uk", "address": { "@type": "PostalAddress", "streetAddress": "Maes-y-Ffynnon, Penrhosgarnedd, Bangor, Gwynedd, LL57 2DW, Wales" } } ], "sdPublisher": { "@type": "Organization", "url": "https://portal.medin.org.uk/portal/", "name": "Marine Environmental Data and Information Network (MEDIN)", "description": "The MEDIN portal contains information about 19493 marine datasets from over 600 UK organisations. 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